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δόκησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δόκησις δόκησεως

Structure: δοκησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: doke/w

Sense

  1. an opinion, belief, conceit, fancy, suspicion
  2. an apparition, phantom
  3. good report, credit

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

  • καὶ δοκεῖ μ’ ἔχειν ‐ κενὴν δόκησιν, οὐκ ἔχων. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:2)
  • σκοπεῖτε μὴ δόκησιν εἴχετ’ ἐκ θεῶν. (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:6)
  • οὕτω δοκεῖτε τὴν δόκησιν ἀσφαλῆ; (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:8)
  • μή νυν πέραινε τὴν δόκησιν, ἀλλ’ ἐμοὺσ λόγουσ ἀκούσασ πρόσθε, βουλεύου τότε. (Euripides, episode, iambic 15:10)
  • "̔ Ἡμῖν μὲν γὰρ ὄντωσ τοῦ εἶναι μέτεστιν οὐδέν, ἀλλὰ πᾶσα θνητὴ φύσισ ἐν μέσῳ γενέσεωσ καὶ φθορᾶσ γενομένη φάσμα παρέχει καὶ δόκησιν ἀμυδρὰν καὶ ἀβέβαιον αὑτῆσ· (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 181)

Synonyms

  1. an apparition

  2. good report

Related

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

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