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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

  • ἀρρενικῶν δὲ καὶ θηλυκῶν καὶ οὐδετέρων ἀντιμετατάξεισ ἐκβεβηκυῖαι τῶν συνήθων σχημάτων αἱ τοιαίδε εἰσίν, ὅταν τὴν μὲν ταραχὴν τάραχον καλῇ τὸ θηλυκὸν ἐκφέρων ἀρρενικῶσ καὶ τὴν ὄχλησιν ὄχλον, τὴν δὲ βούλησιν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν τὸ βουλόμενον λέγῃ καὶ τὸ δυνάμενον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 101)
  • ἔπραξε γὰρ βούλησιν ἣν ἐβούλετο, ἄνδρ’ Ἑλλάδοσ τὸν πρῶτον αὐτοῖσιν βάθροισ ἄνω κάτω στρέψασα. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 3:7)
  • διὸ καὶ τὴν εὔνοιαν ἀμφοτέροισ νομίζομεν ἀντικεῖσθαι, βούλησιν οὖσαν ἀγαθῶν τοῖσ πλησίον· (Plutarch, De invidia et odio, section 1 3:1)
  • σαφὴσ δ’ ἂν ἦν ὁ λόγοσ, εἰ τοῦτον ἐξήνεγκε τὸν τρόπον κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ βούλησιν σχηματίζων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 31 1:6)
  • εἴ τέ τισ φθονεῖ μὲν ἢ καὶ φοβεῖται ἀμφότερα γὰρ τάδε πάσχει τὰ μείζω, διὰ δ’ αὐτὰ τὰσ Συρακόσσασ κακωθῆναι μέν, ἵνα σωφρονισθῶμεν, βούλεται, περιγενέσθαι δὲ ἕνεκα τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ ἀσφαλείασ, οὐκ ἀνθρωπείασ δυνάμεωσ βούλησιν ἐλπίζει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 48 2:3)
  • οὔτισ τήν γε φιλεῖ βροτόσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ ἀθανάτων βουλῇσιν Ἔριν τιμῶσι βαρεῖαν. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 4:5)
  • καὶ τὴν μὲν Διὸσ υἱὸσ ἐνήρατο νηλέι χαλκῷ Ἀμφιτρυωνιάδησ σὺν ἀρηιφίλῳ Ιὀλάῳ Ηρακλέησ βουλῇσιν Ἀθηναίησ ἀγελείησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 32:6)
  • Αἰήτησ δ’ υἱὸσ φαεσιμβρότου Ηἐλίοιο κούρην Ὠκεανοῖο τελήεντοσ ποταμοῖο γῆμε θεῶν βουλῇσιν Ἰδυῖαν καλλιπάρῃον. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 101:2)

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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