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προπετής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προπετής προπετές

Structure: προπετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: propesei=n

Sense

  1. falling forwards, inclined forward
  2. thrown away
  3. drooping, at the point of death
  4. being upon the point of
  5. ready for, prone to
  6. headlong, precipitate, rash, reckless, violent, drawn at random
  7. forwards
  8. headlong hastily, rash

Examples

  • "οὐ μῦθοσ οὖν οὐδὲ θήρα μειρακίων λαμυρῶν καὶ προπετῶν ὁ περὶ τῆσ ἐποχῆσ λόγοσ ἐστίν, ὡσ οἰέται Κωλώτησ, ἀλλ’ ἕξισ ἀνδρῶν καὶ διάθεσισ φυλάττουσα τὸ ἀδιάπτωτον καὶ μὴ προϊεμένη ταῖσ διαβεβλημέναισ οὕτω καὶ δυστατούσαισ αἰσθήσεσι τὴν κρίσιν μηδὲ συνεξαπατωμένη τούτοισ, οἳ τὰ φαινόμενα τῶν ἀδήλων πίστιν ἔχειν φάσκουσιν, ἀπιστίαν τοσαύτην καὶ ἀσάφειαν ἐν τοῖσ φαινομένοισ ὁρῶντεσ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 291)

Synonyms

  1. thrown away

  2. ready for

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

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