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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[protagonist]] (Hom.), [[commander]] (trag.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [814] <b class="b2">*promos</b> [[first]]<br />Etymology: Usually (since Corssen KZ 3, 246, Curtius a.o.) with Umbr. [[promom]] [[primum]], Goth. OWNo. [[fram]] [[forward]] identified as old superlative of IE <b class="b2">*pro</b> in <b class="b3">πρό</b> etc. Beside it with zero grade the hapax <b class="b3">πράμος</b> (s.v.) like Goth. [[fruma]] [[first]], [[earlier]](?). -- Because in Hom. the word means only <b class="b2">champion (Vorkämpfer)</b> the hypothesis must be considered, that <b class="b3">πρόμος</b> was simply shortened from <b class="b3">πρόμαχος</b> (Hentze in Fick Curt. Stud. 9, 196, Schulze KZ 32, 195 = Kl. Schr. 310, Bechtel Lex. s.v., Risch $ 85) ; the meaning [[leader]] would be due to misunderstanding of the ep. word. -- The metr. difficult <b class="b3">ἅπ</b>. <b class="b3">λεγ</b>. <b class="b3">πρόμνοι</b> A. Supp. 904 (<b class="b3">ἀγοὶ</b> πρόμος; lyr.) may be a fault of the tradition; diff. Forssman KZ 79, 11 ff. (s. [[πρυμνός]]). | |etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[protagonist]] (Hom.), [[commander]] (trag.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [814] <b class="b2">*promos</b> [[first]]<br />Etymology: Usually (since Corssen KZ 3, 246, Curtius a.o.) with Umbr. [[promom]] [[primum]], Goth. OWNo. [[fram]] [[forward]] identified as old superlative of IE <b class="b2">*pro</b> in <b class="b3">πρό</b> etc. Beside it with zero grade the hapax <b class="b3">πράμος</b> (s.v.) like Goth. [[fruma]] [[first]], [[earlier]](?). -- Because in Hom. the word means only <b class="b2">champion (Vorkämpfer)</b> the hypothesis must be considered, that <b class="b3">πρόμος</b> was simply shortened from <b class="b3">πρόμαχος</b> (Hentze in Fick Curt. Stud. 9, 196, Schulze KZ 32, 195 = Kl. Schr. 310, Bechtel Lex. s.v., Risch $ 85) ; the meaning [[leader]] would be due to misunderstanding of the ep. word. -- The metr. difficult <b class="b3">ἅπ</b>. <b class="b3">λεγ</b>. <b class="b3">πρόμνοι</b> A. Supp. 904 (<b class="b3">ἀγοὶ</b> πρόμος; lyr.) may be a fault of the tradition; diff. Forssman KZ 79, 11 ff. (s. [[πρυμνός]]). | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[[πρόμος]], ὁ, [πρό]<br />the [[foremost]] man, = [[πρόμαχος]], Hom.; πρ. τινί opposed to [[another]] in the [[front]] [[rank]], Il.:— [[generally]], a [[chief]], Lat. [[primus]], [[princeps]], Trag.; πάντων [[θεῶν]] θεὸς [[πρόμος]], of the Sun, Soph. | |||
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