πρῷραν (proran)

πρῷραν is an Ancient Greek form of πρῷρα, meaning “prow”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.372: ἠδὲ κατὰ πρῴραν εἴσω ἁλὸς ὁσσάτιόν περ

Euripides, The Trojan Women 103: μηδὲ προσίστω πρῷραν βιότου

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 2.19.2: παρέτειναν δὲ καὶ κεραίαν διπλῆν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἱστοῖς ἀμφοτέροις, καὶ ἀπὸ ταύτης ἐξήρτησαν ἐν λέβησιν ὅσα ἐπιχυθέντα ἢ ἐπιβληθέντα ἐπὶ μέγα τὴν φλόγα ἐξάψειν ἔμελλεν, ἕρματά τε ἐς τὴν πρύμναν ἐνέθεσαν, τοῦ ἐξᾶραι ἐς ὕψος τὴν πρῶραν πιεζομένης κατὰ πρύμναν τῆς νεώς.

All forms of πρῷρα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.