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βούλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βούλησις

Structure: βουλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: bou/lomai

Sense

  1. a willing, will, intention, purpose
  2. the purpose or meaning

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁκόσοι γὰρ δὴ ἀνθρώποισι ἐν τῇ γενεῇ ταύτῃ ^ οἰκοδεσποτέουσι, οὗτοι ὅκωσ τοκέεσ ἑωυτοῖσι πάντα ἰκέλουσ ^ ἐκτελέουσιν καὶ χρόην καὶ μορφὴν καὶ ἔργα καὶ διανοίην, καὶ βασιλεὺσ μὲν ὁ Μίνωσ Διὸσ ἡγεομένου, καλὸσ ^ δὲ Αἰνείησ Ἀφροδίτησ βουλήσει ἐγένετο, κλέπτησ δὲ Αὐτόλυκοσ, ἡ δέ οἱ κλεπτικὴ ἐξ Ἑρμέω ἀπίκετο. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 20:4)
  • δυνάμει δὲ ὡσ οὐκ ἴσῃ τῇ βουλήσει κέχρηται, παράδειγμα ἐξ ἑνὸσ τῶν δημηγορικῶν λόγων τόδε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 3 1:5)
  • ὡσ εἴ με πημανεῖσ τι, βουλήσει ποτὲ καὶ δειλὸσ εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ ’ν ἐμοὶ θρασύσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:12)
  • τὸ φαυλότατον, οἶμαι, τὸ τῆσ λοιδορίασ, πρὸ τοῦ τελευταίου καὶ δεινοτάτου προεώραται, τοῦ μὴ φόνον γίγνεσθαι, μηδὲ κατὰ μικρὸν ὑπάγεσθαι ἐκ μὲν λοιδορίασ εἰσ πληγάσ, ἐκ δὲ πληγῶν εἰσ τραύματα, ἐκ δὲ τραυμάτων εἰσ θάνατον, ἀλλ’ ἐν τοῖσ νόμοισ εἶναι τούτων ἑκάστου τὴν δίκην, μὴ τῇ τοῦ προστυχόντοσ ὀργῇ μηδὲ βουλήσει ταῦτα κρίνεσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 29:1)
  • ὑπερέχει γὰρ ἡ χρῆσισ τῶν μὲν τῷ χρόνῳ τῶν δὲ τῇ βουλήσει· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 26:2)

Synonyms

  1. a willing

  2. the purpose or meaning

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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