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πρόρρησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόρρησις πρόρρησεως

Structure: προρρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a foretelling, prediction, a previous instruction or warning
  2. public notice, a proclamation

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ ἐν μὲν τῇ πρώτῃ πρόρρησισ ἦν ὥσπερ Ἀθήνησι τοιαύτη· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 38:3)
  • ἴτω δὴ πρόρρησισ τοιάδε τισ ἄθυμοσ τοῖσ οὕτω τὴν διάνοιαν διεφθαρμένοισ, καὶ λέγωμεν πρᾴωσ, σβέσαντεσ τὸν θυμόν, ὡσ ἑνὶ διαλεγόμενοι τῶν τοιούτων· (Plato, Laws, book 10 22:3)
  • ἐγεγόνει δέ τισ καὶ παλαιὰ πρόρρησισ ἔτεσί που πρόσθεν ἑξακοσίοισ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 483:1)
  • καὶ Ἀκρισίῳ μὲν ἡ πρόρρησισ τοῦ θεοῦ τέλοσ ἔσχεν, οὐδὲ ἀπέτρεψέν οἱ τὸ χρεὼν τὰ ἐσ τὴν παῖδα καὶ τὸν θυγατριδοῦν παρευρήματα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 16 5:1)
  • καὶ ἡ ἡλίου τε ἄπαυστοσ κίνησισ ὑπὲρ γῆσ τε καὶ ὑπὸ γῆν Διόσ ἐστι πρόρρησισ ἡλίῳ προειρημένη ὑπὲρ τῆσ τοῦ παντὸσ κόσμου φανότητοσ, καὶ σελήνησ δρόμοι καὶ χορεῖαι πάντων ἄστρων Διόσ ἐστι διάκοσμοσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. public notice

Related

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

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