Ancient Greek

Noun

πρόλογος • ‎(prólogos) m ‎(genitive προλόγου); second declension

1. the prologue of a play
2. one who recites the above
3. the introduction of a speech
4. (mathematics) the antecedent, in ratios in which the first number is the largest

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: prologus

References

• πρόλογος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πρόλογος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • prologue idem, page 653.