Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τὸ δ’ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτὰ προθυμεῖσθαι μὲν χρὴ καὶ ἀνάγκη, διανοεῖσθαι μέντοι αὐτὰ οἱᾶ λέγω, καὶ μὴ ἀνοηταίνειν οἰομένουσ τι ἑτοίμωσ διαπράξασθαι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 11 7:3)
  • ὅταν δ’ ἱκανὸν ᾖ πρὸσ τὴν τοῦ κυουμένου δίοδον, ἀνιστᾶσιν αὐτὰσ καὶ καθίζουσι καὶ προθυμεῖσθαι κελεύουσιν ἀπώσασθαι τὸ παιδίον. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 322)
  • ἐν τῷ προθυμεῖσθαι δὲ καὶ τολμᾶν τίνα ὁρᾷσ ἐνοῦσαν ζημίαν; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests 5:3)
  • ἀλλὰ προθυμεῖσθαι χρή, ἔφη· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 42:1)
  • εἰ οὖν τοῦτο ἀληθέσ, ἄτοπον δήπου ἂν εἰή προθυμεῖσθαι μὲν ἐν παντὶ τῷ βίῳ μηδὲν ἄλλο ἢ τοῦτο, ἥκοντοσ δὲ δὴ αὐτοῦ ἀγανακτεῖν ὃ πάλαι προυθυμοῦντό τε καὶ ἐπετήδευον. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 73:2)

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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