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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

  • καὶ ἔστι μεθόριον αὐτῷ ἑκατέρασ τῶν ἰδεῶν ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ ἡ πρόθεσισ, ἤδη δέ ποτε καὶ ἀπὸ μόνησ ταύτησ ἤρξατο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 17 1:4)
  • ἡ πρόθεσισ ἦν μοι καὶ τὸ ἐπάγγελμα τοῦ λόγου, κρατίστῃ λέξει καὶ πρὸσ ἅπασαν ἀνθρώπου φύσιν ἡρμοσμένῃ μετριώτατα Δημοσθένη κεχρημένον ἐπιδεῖξαι, καὶ τοῦτό γε συνάγειν ἐπειρώμην οὐκ ἐξ αὐτῆσ ἐκείνησ μόνησ τὰσ πίστεισ διδούσ ᾔδειν γὰρ ὅτι οὐδὲν αὔταρκέσ ἐστιν ἐφ’ ἑαυτοῦ θεωρούμενον, οἱο͂́ν ἐστιν, ὀφθῆναι καὶ καθαρῶσ, ἀλλ’ ἀντιπαρατιθεὶσ αὐτῇ τὰσ τῶν ἄλλων ῥητόρων τε καὶ φιλοσόφων λέξεισ τὰσ κράτιστα δοκούσασ ἔχειν καὶ τῇ δι’ ἀλλήλων βασάνῳ φανερὰν ποιῶν τὴν ἀμείνω. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 331)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀντωνυμία καὶ μετοχὴ καὶ ὄνομα καὶ ῥῆμα καὶ πρόθεσισ καὶ ἄρθρον καὶ σύνδεσμοσ καὶ ἐπίρρημα ἔνεστι· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 10, section 1 3:1)
  • εἰσὶ γὰρ οἱ τὸν Ὄσιριν ἄντικρυσ ἣλιον εἶναι καὶ ὀνομάζεσθαι Σείριον ὑφ’ Ἑλλήνων λέγοντεσ, εἰ καὶ παρ’ Αἰγυπτίοισ ἡ πρόθεσισ τοῦ ἄρθρου τοὔνομα πεποίηκεν ἀμφιγνοεῖσθαι, τὴν δ’ Ἶσιν οὐχ ἑτέραν τῆσ σελήνησ ἀποφαίνοντεσ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 52 7:4)
  • ἀναγκαῖα ἄρα μόρια πρόθεσισ καὶ πίστισ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 13 4:1)
  • τούτων δὲ τὸ μὲν πρόθεσίσ ἐστι τὸ δὲ πίστισ, ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τισ διέλοι ὅτι τὸ μὲν πρόβλημα τὸ δὲ ἀπόδειξισ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 13 2:1)

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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