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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προαίρεσις προαιρέσει προαιρέσεις
Genitive προαιρέσεως προαίρουιν προαιρέσεων
Dative προαιρέσει προαίρουιν προαιρέσεσιν*
Accusative προαίρεσιν προαιρέσει προαιρέσεις
Vocative προαίρεσι προαιρέσει προαιρέσεις

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

  • πέπεισμαι γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐπιεικῶσ καὶ φιλανθρώπωσ παρακολουθοῦντα τῇ ἐμῇ προαιρέσει συμπεριενεχθήσεσθαι ὑμῖν». (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:27)
  • εὖ οὖν ποιήσεισ διαπεμψάμενοσ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ δοὺσ δεξιάσ, ὅπωσ εἰδότεσ τὴν ἡμετέραν προαίρεσιν εὔθυμοί τε ὦσι καὶ ἡδέωσ διαγίνωνται πρὸσ τὴν τῶν ἰδίων ἀντίληψιν». (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 11:26)
  • εἶδον σὺν πάντα τὰ ποιήματα τὰ πεποιημένα ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 1:14)
  • καὶ καρδία μου εἶδε πολλά, σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν, παραβολὰσ καὶ ἐπιστήμην ἔγνων ἐγώ, ὅτι καί γε τοῦτό ἐστι προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 1:17)
  • καὶ ἐπέβλεψα ἐγὼ ἐν πᾶσι ποιήμασί μου, οἷσ ἐποίησαν αἱ χεῖρέσ μου, καὶ ἐν μόχθῳ, ᾧ ἐμόχθησα τοῦ ποιεῖν, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι περισσεία ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:11)
  • καὶ ἐμίσησα σὺν τὴν ζωήν, ὅτι πονηρὸν ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ τὸ ποίημα τὸ πεποιημένον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον, ὅτι πάντα ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:17)
  • ὅτι τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ ἀγαθῷ πρὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἔδωκε σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν καὶ εὐφροσύνην. καί τῷ ἁμαρτάνοντι ἔδωκε περισπασμὸν τοῦ προσθεῖναι καὶ τοῦ συναγαγεῖν, τοῦ δοῦναι τῷ ἀγαθῷ πρὸ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ. ὅτι καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:26)

Synonyms

  1. a department of government

  2. a political party

Related

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

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