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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

  • Καὶ Φινεὲσ υἱὸσ Ἐλεάζαρ τρίτοσ εἰσ δόξαν ἐν τῷ ζηλῶσαι αὐτὸν ἐν φόβῳ Κυρίου καὶ στῆναι αὐτὸν ἐν τροπῇ λαοῦ, ἐν ἀγαθότητι προθυμίασ ψυχῆσ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐξιλάσατο περὶ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 45:23)
  • ἐν δευτέρῳ δὲ ἢ τρίτῳ, ὁπότε εἰκὸσ διαπεπονῆσθαι τὴν κύνα, κωλῦσαι ἄν μοι δοχῶ θαμινὰ ἀνακαλεῖν αὐτὴν ὀνομαστί, μή ποτε ἄρα ὑπὸ μένουσ καὶ προθυμίασ, χαρίζεσθαι τῷ δεσπότῃ ἐθέλουσα, ἔπειτα παρὰ δύναμιν ἐνταθεῖσα ῥήξειέν τι τῶν ἐντόσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 17 2:2)
  • κρεῖσσον γὰρ ὕψοσ τῆσ προθυμίασ ἔχων καθῆσθ’ ὁ τλήμων, ἀπορίᾳ λελημμένοσ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 5:9)
  • τὸν μὲν οὖν ξένον δίκαιον αἰνέσαι προθυμίασ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees72)
  • ὦ θύγατερ, αἰνῶ μέν σε τῆσ προθυμίασ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:13)

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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