dowry

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

substantive

P. προίξ, ἡ, P. and V. φερνή, ἡ.

bridal gifts: V. ἕδνα, τά (Eur., Andromache 2, 153, 873).

bring dowry with one (of a wife): P. ἐπιφέρεσθαι προῖκα.

he took my mother to wife though she brought no dowry: P. τὴν ἐμὴν μητέρα ἔλαβεν οὐδὲν ἐπιφερομένην.

give as a dowry, v.: P. ἐπιδιδόναι.

giving her a dowry of twenty-five minae, besides clothes and ornaments: P. σὺν ἱματίοις καὶ χρυσίοις πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι μνᾶς ἐπιδούς (Isaeus 69).

without a dowry, adj.: P. ἄπροικος.