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προθυμία?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: prothymia

Principal Part: προθυμία

Structure: προθυμι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: from πρόθυ_μος

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

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

  • ψυχὴ μὲν οὖν μοι καὶ προθυμία πάρα βάσεις ἀμείβειν ἐπὶ θύρας ὡρμημένῳ, δέμας δὲ νωθρὸν οὐχ ὑπηρετεῖ πόθοις. (Lucian, 14)
  • πολλὴ δέ τις προθυμία σε τοῦδ ἔχουσα τυγχάνει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 4:22)
  • τὰς τῶν θεῶν γὰρ ὅστις ἐκμοχθεῖ τύχας, πρόθυμός ἐστιν, ἡ προθυμία δ ἄφρων: (Euripides, Heracles, episode 4:26)
  • τίς προθυμία ποδῶν ἔχει σε, καὶ λόγους τίνας φέρεις· (Euripides, Ion, episode4)
  • σὴ γὰρ ἡ προθυμία, καὶ πῶμα χειρὸς σῆς ἐδεξάμην πάρα. (Euripides, Ion, episode 6:8)
  • ἀποδημήσας οὖν καὶ τοῖς εὐδοκιμωτάτοις τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς ἀλλοδαπῆς ἰατρῶν συγγενόμενος καὶ πόνῳ πολλῷ καὶ προθυμίᾳ λιπαρεῖ χρησάμενος ἐξέμαθον τὴν τέχνην. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 4:1)
  • τῇ δὲ αὐτῇ προθυμίᾳ χρώμενοι καὶ πρὸς τὴν Ἑλλάδα τῷ θεραπεύειν προσήγοντο τὰς πόλεις καὶ τῷ πείθειν ταῖς εὐεργεσίαις μᾶλλον ἢ τῷ βιάζεσθαι τοῖς ὅπλοις κατεῖχον, πιστοτέροις χρώμενοι τοῖς λόγοις ἢ νῦν τοῖς ὁρ´κοις, καὶ ταῖς συνθήκαις ἀξιοῦντες μᾶλλον ἐμμένειν ἢ ταῖς ἀνάγκαις, τοιαῦτα δὲ περὶ τῶν ἡττόνων ἀξιοῦντες γινώσκειν, οἱᾶ περὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν τοὺς κρείττους ἂν ἠξίωσαν φρονεῖν, οὕτω δὲ παρεσκευασμένοι τὰς γνώμας, ὡς ἰδίᾳ μὲν ἔχοντες τὰς ἑαυτῶν πόλεις, κοινὴν δὲ πατρίδα τὴν Ἑλλάδα οἰκοῦντες. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 5 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. desire

  2. zeal

  3. good-will

Related

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

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