πρῷρ-α [ᾰ
in nominative and accusative singular, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 716, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 482, “fragment” 726, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1563, 1582, “Or.” 362, “IT” 1134 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; nominative πρῷρ᾽ with elision in [[ “IG” 2.2836] Refs]; accusative πρῴρᾱν is falsa lectio in [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.372 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; πρῴρην is found in codices of [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.194, 7.180]] Refs 5th c.BC+], ἡ, forepart of a ship, prow, εἰς ἴκρια νηὸς πρῴρης [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.230 (here probably adjectival with νηός),compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] [same places], etc.; πνεῦμα τοὐκ πρῴρας a contrary wind, opposed to κατὰ πρύμναν, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 639. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, πρῷρα βιότου the prow of life's vessel, i.e. early youth, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 103 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὦ πρῷρα λοιβῆς Ἑστία thou who art first entitled to it, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 726 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάροιθεν πρῴρας.. καρδίας before my heart's prow, in front of my heart, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 390 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 end of a vinebranch, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 2.1.3 (conjecture in “CP” 3.14.7). (Written πρώρρα in 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.6.1, +others, but πρωιρ- in “PSI” 4.382.2 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+], compare πρῳρατικό; κυανοπρωΐρους [??] is cited by [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 692.32 from 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, and κυανοπρώϊραν from 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 241: hence πρῷρα is probably _contraction_ from a word of the form ¯ ¯ ?~X, but whether from *πρώειρα, as inferred by 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus Gr. 2.410 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], is doubtful; perhaps from *πρώαιρα, compare νείαιρ; -πρωῑρ- in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus may have arisen by 'distraction' of the contracted form.) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]