Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παραδέχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραδέχομαι παραδέξομαι παραδέδεγμαι

Structure: παρα (Prefix) + δέχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to receive from, to receive as inheritance, succeed to, to take up and continue
  2. to take upon oneself, engage
  3. to admit

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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 ἄλλα δὴ μυρία ἐπὶ μυρίοισ οὕτωσ ἔχει, εἴπερ καὶ ταῦτα παραδεξόμεθα. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 83:3)
  • μαντεύομαι, ἔφη, σκοπεῖσθαί σε εἴτε παραδεξόμεθα τραγῳδίαν τε καὶ κωμῳδίαν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν, εἴτε καὶ οὔ. (Plato, Republic, book 3 162:1)
  • πότερον εἰσ τὴν πόλιν πάντασ τούτουσ παραδεξόμεθα ἢ τῶν ἀκράτων τὸν ἕτερον ἢ τὸν κεκραμένον; (Plato, Republic, book 3 223:3)
  • τοιγάρτοι, ἔφην, ἅτε σοφοὶ ὄντεσ οἱ τῆσ τραγῳδίασ ποιηταὶ συγγιγνώσκουσιν ἡμῖν τε καὶ ἐκείνοισ ὅσοι ἡμῶν ἐγγὺσ πολιτεύονται, ὅτι αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὴν πολιτείαν οὐ παραδεξόμεθα ἅτε τυραννίδοσ ὑμνητάσ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 577:1)
  • ἔπειτα ταῦθ’ ἡμεῖσ ἁπλῶσ οὕτωσ παραδεξόμεθα; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 173:6)

Synonyms

  1. to take upon oneself

  2. to admit

Derived

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

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