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προαίρεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαίρεσις προαίρεσεως

Structure: προαιρεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: proaire/omai

Sense

  1. a choosing, before, an act of deliberate choice, a purpose, resolution, on purpose, as one will
  2. a purpose, plan, scope, a course of life, principle
  3. a deliberate course of action, a policy, a mode, principles, your general policy
  4. a department of government
  5. a political party

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

  • πολλάκισ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ βίου καὶ τῆσ φύσεωσ, πολλάκισ δ’ ἐκ τῶν προτέρων πράξεων καὶ προαιρέσεων ἀξιόπιστα κατασκευάζει τὰ ἤθη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 19 1:2)
  • ἀποκηρύξομεν δὲ βίουσ φιλοσόφουσ παντὸσ εἴδουσ καὶ προαιρέσεων ποικίλων. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 1:4)
  • προαιρέσεων ἡγεμονικῶν, ἐμφαινομένων τοῖσ λόγοισ μᾶλλον ἢ ταῖσ πράξεσιν αὐτῶν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 1 5:1)
  • τοιαύτῃ δή τινι γνώμῃ κἀμοῦ λιτά σοι δῶρα καὶ ξένια καὶ κοινὰσ ἀπαρχὰσ προσφέροντοσ ἀπὸ φιλοσοφίασ, ἅμα τῇ προθυμίᾳ καὶ τὴν χρείαν ἀπόδεξαι τῶν ἀπομνημονευμάτων, εἰ πρόσφορον ἔχει τι πρὸσ κατανόησιν ἠθῶν καὶ προαιρέσεων ἡγεμονικῶν, ἐμφαινομένων τοῖσ λόγοισ μᾶλλον ἢ ταῖσ πράξεσιν αὐτῶν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 1 2:2)
  • αἱ δὲ γνῶμαι πᾶσαι τοῦτο ποιοῦσιν διὰ τὸ ἀποφαίνεσθαι τὸν τὴν γνώμην λέγοντα καθόλου περὶ τῶν προαιρέσεων, ὥστε, ἂν χρησταὶ ὦσιν αἱ γνῶμαι, καὶ χρηστοήθη φαίνεσθαι ποιοῦσι τὸν λέγοντα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 21 16:4)

Synonyms

  1. a department of government

  2. a political party

Related

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

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