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προθυμία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προθυμία

Structure: προθυμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from pro/qu_mos

Sense

  1. readiness, willingness, eagerness, zeal, zeal, zealously
  2. desire, desire, by the will
  3. zeal, readiness, the will or purpose
  4. good-will, ready kindness

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προθυμία προθυμίᾱ προθυμίαι
Genitive προθυμίᾱς προθυμίαιν προθυμιῶν
Dative προθυμίᾱͅ προθυμίαιν προθυμίαις
Accusative προθυμίᾱν προθυμίᾱ προθυμίᾱς
Vocative προθυμίᾱ προθυμίᾱ προθυμίαι

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

  • ἡγούμεθα γάρ, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, τὴν εἰσ τὰ γυμνάσια προθυμίαν οὕτωσ ἂν πλείω ἐγγενέσθαι αὐτοῖσ, εἰ τοὺσ ἀριστεύοντασ ἐν τούτοισ ἴδοιεν τιμωμένουσ καὶ ἀνακηρυττομένουσ ἐν μέσοισ τοῖσ Ἕλλησι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 36:5)
  • νῦν δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τούτων εἰκάζειν παρέχοιεν ἄν σοι, ὁποῖοι ἐν πολέμοισ ὑπὲρ πατρίδοσ καὶ παίδων καὶ γυναικῶν καὶ ἱερῶν γένοιντ’ ἂν ὅπλα ἔχοντεσ οἱ κοτίνου πέρι καὶ μήλων γυμνοὶ τοσαύτην προθυμίαν εἰσ τὸ νικᾶν εἰσφερόμενοι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 36:10)
  • γνώσῃ δὲ καὶ σὺ τὴν ἐμὴν προθυμίαν. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 2:19)
  • ναύταισ γὰρ ἢν μὲν μέτριοσ ᾖ χειμὼν φέρειν, προθυμίαν ἔχουσι σωθῆναι πόνων, ὁ μὲν παρ’ οἰάχ’, ὁ δ’ ἐπὶ λαίφεσιν βεβώσ, ὁ δ’ ἄντλον εἴργων ναόσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 3:10)
  • ἐσ γὰρ τί μᾶλλον δεῖ προθυμίαν ἔχειν; (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:26)

Synonyms

  1. desire

  2. zeal

  3. good-will

Related

Similar forms

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

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