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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

  • ἀγαθὸν πλήρωμα δρακὸσ ἀναπαύσεωσ ὑπὲρ πληρώματα δύο δρακῶν μόχθου καὶ προαιρέσεωσ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 4:6)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν τῆσ προαιρέσεωσ, ἣν ἔσχον ἐν τῇ συγκρίσει τῶν χαρακτήρων, ἱκανῶσ ἀπολελόγημαι καὶ σοί, Γεμῖνε φίλτατε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 17:2)
  • οἱ δὲ Δημοσθένην προχειρισάμενοι καὶ τὰσ ἀρετὰσ τὰσ ἐκείνου διώκοντεσ τῆσ μὲν προαιρέσεωσ ἕνεκα ἐπῃνέθησαν, οὐ μὴν ἴσχυσαν τὰ κράτιστα τῶν ἐκείνου τοῦ ῥήτοροσ ἔργων λαβεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 8 2:2)
  • λείπεται δὴ περὶ τῆσ προαιρέσεωσ καὶ δυνάμεωσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τίνι κέχρηται χαρακτῆρι λέγειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 21)
  • τούτων δή, φημί, τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ τῶν παραπλησίων τούτοισ διαφέρειν οἰόμενοσ Λυσίαν καὶ ὥσπερ ἀρχέτυπον ἀπογράφων ὑπερέχειν, ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἄνδρα ταύτησ τῆσ προαιρέσεωσ τῶν λόγων ἐποιησάμην κανόνα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 20 1:1)

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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