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προθέσμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προθέσμιος προθέσμιᾱ προθέσμιον

Structure: προθεσμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qesmo/s

Sense

  1. fore-appointed
  2. a day appointed beforehand, an appointed time

Examples

  • ἔταξαν δὲ καὶ τὴν προθεσμίαν τῆσ ἐπιδημίασ μὴ πλέον μηνῶν ἑπτά. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 10:6)
  • ἀφορίσαντοσ δ’ αὐτοῦ προθεσμίαν ποτὲ τῆσ θοίνησ ἀφυστερήσαντά τινα τῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 37 1:1)
  • οἶμαι δὲ καὶ τὴν φύσιν ὁρῶσαν τὸ τ’ ἄτακτον καὶ βραχυχρόνιον τοῦ βίου ἄδηλον ποιῆσαι τὴν τοῦ θανάτου προθεσμίαν τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ἄμεινον. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 111)
  • τὸν δὲ τὴν τῶν εἴκοσιν ἐτῶν προθεσμίαν ἐκπληρώσαντα ἢ τὸν ἐγγὺσ γενόμενον τοῦ τῶν εἴκοσιν ἐτῶν ἀριθμοῦ πάντωσ ἂν ἐμακαρίζομεν ὡσ εὐδαιμονέστατον καὶ τελειότατον διαπεράσαντα βίον. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 23 6:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ κέλεσθέ με κατὰ τὰν προθεσμίαν παραγίνεσθαι, ἕπομαι τᾷ ἐπιστολᾷ, σχεδὸν δ’ αὐτὰν καὶ φθάσω· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 41 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. fore-appointed

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

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