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προέκθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προέκθεσις

Structure: προεκθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an introduction, preface

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

  • τῆσ γὰρ προεκθέσεωσ οὐ μόνον ἰσοδυναμούσησ πρὸσ τὴν προγραφήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πλεῖόν τι δυναμένησ, ἅμα δὲ καὶ χώραν ἐχούσησ ἀσφαλεστέραν διὰ τὸ συμπεπλέχθαι τῇ πραγματείᾳ, τούτῳ μᾶλλον ἐδοκιμάσαμεν χρῆσθαι τῷ μέρει παρ’ ὅλην τὴν σύνταξιν πλὴν ἓξ τῶν πρώτων βυβλίων· (Polybius, Histories, book 11, i. ex prooemio 4:1)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ παραγεγονότεσ ἐπὶ τὸ τέρμα τῆσ ὅλησ πραγματείασ βουλόμεθα, προσαναμνήσαντεσ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ καὶ τῆσ προεκθέσεωσ ἧσ ἐποιησάμεθα καταβαλόμενοι τὴν ἱστορίαν, συγκεφαλαιώσασθαι τὴν ὅλην ὑπόθεσιν, οἰκειώσαντεσ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῷ τέλει καὶ καθόλου καὶ κατὰ μέροσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 39, b. olymp. 158, 4. ex epilogo 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. an introduction

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

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