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πρόθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόθεσις πρόθεσεως

Structure: προθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: proti/qhmi

Sense

  1. a placing in public, the laying, out
  2. a public notice
  3. the statement
  4. laid before, the shewbread
  5. a purpose, end proposed
  6. a supposition, calculation

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

  • εἰ δ’ ἔστιν ὅσιόν μοι καὶ θεμιτὸν εἰπεῖν ἃ φρονῶ, δοκεῖ μοι κράτιστον ἂν γενέσθαι τὸ προοίμιον, εἰ τὸ τελευταῖον αὐτοῦ μέροσ τῇ προθέσει προσήρμοσε πάντα τὰ ἐν μέσῳ παραλιπὼν καὶ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον αὐτὸ κατεσκεύασε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 19 4:1)
  • ἐν ἀρχῇ μὲν οὖν τοῦ προοιμίου προθέσει χρησάμενοσ, ὅτι μέγιστοσ ἐγένετο τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ πολέμων ὁ Πελοποννησιακόσ, κατὰ λέξιν οὕτω γράφει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 25 1:2)
  • τῇ προθέσει παρηύξηκεν τοὔνομα, τὸ γὰρ ἰδὼν ἀπέχρη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 617)
  • ταύτασ κελεύει τὰσ προσηκούσασ καὶ παρεῖναι τῇ προθέσει τοῦ τετελευτηκότοσ καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ μνῆμα ἀκολουθεῖν, οὐ τὴν Μακαρτάτου μητέρα οὐδὲ τὴν Θεοπόμπου γυναῖκα· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 96:1)
  • ἔστιν γὰρ ἡ εἰκών, καθάπερ εἴρηται πρότερον, μεταφορὰ διαφέρουσα προθέσει· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 10 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a placing in public

  2. a public notice

  3. the statement

  4. a purpose

Related

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

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