FromProto-Hellenic*prógʷlāmə. Equivalent toπροβάλλω(probállō,“I throw before”) +‎-μᾰ(-mă).

πρόβλημᾰ• (próblēmă) n (genitiveπροβλήμᾰτος);third declension

1. anything thrown forward or projecting
   • 497BCE – 405BCE,Sophocles,Ajax1219
   1. ahindrance,obstacle
      • 460BCE – 370BCE,Hippocrates of Kos,Τοῦ μεγάλου Ἱπποκράτους πάντων τῶν ἰατρῶν κορυφαίου τὰ εὑρισκόμενα. Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis, opera omnia quæ extant.582.10
2. anything put before one as a defense,bulwark,barrier,screen,shield,wall
   • 460BCE – 420BCE,Herodotus,Histories7.70
   1. (with genitive) a defense against a thing
      • 467BCE,Aeschylus,Seven Against Thebes676
3. anything put forward as an excuse or screen
   • 384BCE – 322BCE,Demosthenes 1122.21
4. that which is proposed as atask,business
   • 458BCE,Euripides,Electra985
   1. (geometry)problem
      • 380BCE,Plato,The Republic530
   2. (Aristotelian logic) a question as to whether a statement is so or not
      • 384BCE – 322BCE,Aristotle,Topics 1.4,3
   3. aproblem,difficulty
      • 200BCE – 118BCE,Polybius,The Histories28.11,9

• (shield):προβαλλός(proballós)

• Greek:πρόβλημα(próvlima)
• → Latin:problēma (see there for further descendants)

• “πρόβλημα”, inLiddell & Scott (1940),A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρόβλημα”, inLiddell & Scott (1889),An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πρόβλημα inBailly, Anatole (1935),Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πρόβλημα inTrapp, 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^[1], 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

Learnedly, fromAncient Greekπρόβλημᾰ(próblēmă). For sense "difficulty",semantic loan fromFrenchproblème orEnglishproblem.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾo.vli.ma/
• Hyphenation:πρό‧βλη‧μα

πρόβλημα• (próvlima) n (pluralπροβλήματα)

1. problem, complicated question or subject
2. (mathematics)problem,sum
3. difficulty,trouble

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