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προθυμέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προθυμέομαι προθυμήσομαι προὐθυμήθην

Structure: προ (Prefix) + θυμέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: pro/qumos

Sense

  1. to be ready, willing, eager, zealous to do
  2. to shew zeal, exert oneself, to be of good cheer
  3. to be eager or zealous for, promote eagerly, desire ardently

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

  • Λυσιτελεῖ ἄρα τοῖσ πολλοῖσ μήτ’ εἰδέναι μηδὲν μήτ’ οἰέσθαι εἰδέναι, εἴπερ γε μᾶλλον προθυμήσονται πράττειν μὲν ταῦτα ἅττ’ ἂν εἰδῶσιν ἢ οἰηθῶσιν εἰδέναι, πράττοντεσ δὲ βλάπτεσθαι τὰ πλείω μᾶλλον ἢ ὠφελεῖσθαι. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 52:2)
  • ἐκείνουσ μὲν γὰρ ὁμοῦ φαύλουσ τε ἡγήσονται καὶ μισήσουσιν ἅπαντεσ, ἡμῖν δὲ μετ’ εὐφημίασ ὅ τι ἂν οἱοῖ́ τ’ ὦσιν ὑπηρετεῖν προθυμήσονται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:7)

Synonyms

  1. to be ready

Derived

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

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