Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /próβlima/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /próvlima/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pɾóvlima/

Noun

πρόβλημα • ‎(próblēma) n ‎(genitive προβλήματος); third declension

1. anything thrown forward or projecting
   • Sophocles, Ajax 1219
   1. a hindrance, obstacle
      • Hippocrates, Collected Works 582.10
2. 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
3. anything put forward as an excuse or screen
   • Demosthenes 1122.21
4. that which is proposed as a task, business
   • Euripides, Electra 985
   1. (geometry) problem
      • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   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

Inflection

References

• 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

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɔvlima/
• Hyphenation: πρό‧βλη‧μα

Noun

πρόβλημα • ‎(próvlima) n ‎(plural προβλήματα)

1. problem, trouble
2. (mathematics) problem, sum

Declension