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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

  • προοιμιάζεται γὰρ ὁμοίωσ ἐκείνῳ, καὶ δι’ ὅλου τοῦ λόγου παραπλήσιοσ μεμένηκε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 5 1:4)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἵνα μὴ μακρὰ προοιμιάζωμαι τοῦ ὕδατοσ πάλαι εἰκῆ ῥέοντοσ, ἄρξομαι τῆσ κατηγορίασ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 26:5)
  • πρῶτον μὲν οὖν ποιήσομαι τὸν λόγον ἀπὸ τῶν τὴν εἰρωνείαν ἐζηλωκότων, ἀφεὶσ τὸ προοιμιάζεσθαι καὶ πολλὰ περὶ τοῦ πράγματοσ λέγειν· (Theophrastus, Characters, 4:2)
  • πανταχοῦ γὰρ βέλτιον διατρίβειν ἢ ἐν τῷ πράγματι, διὸ οἱ δοῦλοι οὐ τὰ ἐρωτώμενα λέγουσιν ἀλλὰ τὰ κύκλῳ, καὶ προοιμιάζονται. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 10:5)
  • δεῖ γὰρ μὴ μακρῶσ διηγεῖσθαι ὥσπερ οὐδὲ προοιμιάζεσθαι μακρῶσ, οὐδὲ τὰσ πίστεισ λέγειν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 16 4:4)
  • ἔστιν οὖν τοῦτο, περὶ οὗ πάλαι τοσαῦτα προοιμιάζομαι, τόδε. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 3:2)

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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