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προοιμιάζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προοιμιάζομαι προοιμιάσομαι πεφροιμίασμαι

Structure: προοιμιάζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from prooi/mion

Sense

  1. to make a prelude, preamble or preface
  2. to say by way of preface, premise, begin by invoking, let, be said by way of preface

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ποιήσομαι τὸν λόγον ἀπὸ τῶν τὴν εἰρωνείαν ἐζηλωκότων, ἀφεὶσ τὸ προοιμιάζεσθαι καὶ πολλὰ περὶ τοῦ πράγματοσ λέγειν· (Theophrastus, Characters, 4:2)
  • δεῖ γὰρ μὴ μακρῶσ διηγεῖσθαι ὥσπερ οὐδὲ προοιμιάζεσθαι μακρῶσ, οὐδὲ τὰσ πίστεισ λέγειν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 16 4:4)
  • ἁρμόσειε δ’ ἂν οὕτω προοιμιάζεσθαι καὶ τοῖσ βουλομένοισ παρὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἰατρικὸν ἔργον λαβεῖν· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 6:1)
  • καλῶσ μὲν τοίνυν, ὦ Κλεινία, δοκεῖσ μοι τό γε τοσοῦτον λέγειν, ὅτι πᾶσίν γε νόμοισ ἔστιν προοίμια καὶ ὅτι πάσησ ἀρχόμενον νομοθεσίασ χρὴ προτιθέναι παντὸσ τοῦ λόγου τὸ πεφυκὸσ προοίμιον ἑκάστοισ ‐ οὐ γὰρ σμικρὸν τὸ μετὰ τοῦτό ἐστιν ῥηθησόμενον, οὐδ’ ὀλίγον διαφέρον ἢ σαφῶσ ἢ μὴ σαφῶσ αὐτὰ μνημονεύεσθαι ‐ τὸ μέντοι μεγάλων πέρι λεγομένων νόμων καὶ σμικρῶν εἰ ὁμοίωσ προοιμιάζεσθαι προστάττοιμεν, οὐκ ἂν ὀρθῶσ λέγοιμεν. (Plato, Laws, book 4 121:1)
  • λάβωμεν δ’ αὐτῶν ἀρχὴν ὁμολογοῦντεσ προοιμιάζεσθαι. (Plato, Laws, book 4 123:1)

Synonyms

  1. to say by way of preface

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

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