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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

  • λύειν δέ γε αὐτήν, ὥσ φαμεν, προθυμοῦνται ἀεὶ μάλιστα καὶ μόνοι οἱ φιλοσοφοῦντεσ ὀρθῶσ, καὶ τὸ μελέτημα αὐτὸ τοῦτό ἐστιν τῶν φιλοσόφων, λύσισ καὶ χωρισμὸσ ψυχῆσ ἀπὸ σώματοσ· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 140:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι ὅταν περί του ἀμφισβητῶσιν, ὅπῃ μὲν ἔχει περὶ ὧν ἂν ὁ λόγοσ ᾖ οὐ φροντίζουσιν, ὅπωσ δὲ ἃ αὐτοὶ ἔθεντο ταῦτα δόξει τοῖσ παροῦσιν, τοῦτο προθυμοῦνται. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 572:1)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ δι’ ἀρετὴν φίλοι ὄντεσ εὖ δρᾶν ἀλλήλουσ προθυμοῦνται τοῦτο γὰρ ἀρετῆσ καὶ φιλίασ, πρὸσ τοῦτο δ’ ἁμιλλωμένων οὐκ ἔστιν ἐγκλήματα οὐδὲ μάχαι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 138:2)
  • οὐκοῦν εἴ σε φιλεῖ ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ἡ μήτηρ καὶ εὐδαίμονά σε ἐπιθυμοῦσι γενέσθαι, τοῦτο παντὶ τρόπῳ δῆλον ὅτι προθυμοῦνται ὅπωσ ἂν εὐδαιμονοίησ. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 83:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀργύριον λαβεῖν προθυμοῦνται, ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἐκβαλεῖν ἔργον ποιοῦνται. (Lysias, Speeches, 18:4)

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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