πρόβλημα

Ancient Greek

προβάλλω (probállō, “I throw before”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma)

πρόβλημᾰ • (próblēma) n (genitive προβλήμᾰτος); third declension

anything thrown forward or projecting
- Sophocles, Ajax 1219
1. a hindrance, obstacle
  - Hippocrates, Collected Works 582.10
anything put before one as a defense, bulwark, barrier, screen, shield, wall
- Herodotus, Histories 7.70
1. (with genitive) a defense against a thing
  - Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 676
anything put forward as an excuse or screen
- Demosthenes 1122.21
that which is proposed as a task, business
- Euripides, Electra 985
1. (geometry) problem
  - Plato, The Republic 530
2. (Logic of Aristotle) a question as to whether a statement is so or not
  - Aristotle, Topics 1.4,3
3. a problem, difficulty
  - Polybius, The Histories 28.11,9

Third declension of τὸ πρόβλημᾰ; τοῦ προβλήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πρόβλημᾰ tò próblēma	τὼ προβλήμᾰτε tṑ problḗmate	τᾰ̀ προβλήμᾰτᾰ tà problḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ προβλήμᾰτος toû problḗmatos	τοῖν προβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn problēmátoin	τῶν προβλημᾰ́των tôn problēmátōn
Dative	τῷ προβλήμᾰτῐ tôi problḗmati	τοῖν προβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn problēmátoin	τοῖς προβλήμᾰσῐ / προβλήμᾰσῐν toîs problḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πρόβλημᾰ tò próblēma	τὼ προβλήμᾰτε tṑ problḗmate	τᾰ̀ προβλήμᾰτᾰ tà problḗmata
Vocative	πρόβλημᾰ próblēma	προβλήμᾰτε problḗmate	προβλήμᾰτᾰ problḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

πρόβλημα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
πρόβλημα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
πρόβλημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
πρόβλημα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- barrier idem, page 63.
- blind idem, page 83.
- bulwark idem, page 103.
- cover idem, page 180.
- defence idem, page 204.
- pretence idem, page 638.
- pretext idem, page 638.
- problem idem, page 643.
- protection idem, page 653.
- safe-guard idem, page 730.
- screen idem, page 742.
- sham idem, page 761.
- shelter idem, page 764.
LSJ 8th edition

πρόβλημα • (próvlima) n (plural προβλήματα)

declension of πρόβλημα

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