προαίρεσις
Third declension Noun; Feminine
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
προαίρεσις
προαίρεσεως
Structure:
προαιρεσι
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- a choosing, before, an act of deliberate choice, a purpose, resolution, on purpose, as one will
- a purpose, plan, scope, a course of life, principle
- a deliberate course of action, a policy, a mode, principles, your general policy
- a department of government
- 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.
- 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
-
a department of government
-
a political party
- μοῖρα (political party)
- ἑταιρεία (a political club or union for party purposes)