Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προσδέχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσδέχομαι προσδέξομαι

Structure: προς (Prefix) + δέχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to receive favourably, accept, to receive hospitably, to admit into, to admit to citizenship
  2. to admit
  3. waiting for or expecting, expectation, to expect that . .
  4. to wait patiently

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

  • τοιγάρτοι τοὺσ ἀμυνουμένουσ ὑμᾶσ προσδέχεσθε μετὰ τῶν ὅπλων οὐκ εἰσ μακράν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 3 8:3)
  • ὅλωσ δέ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, τὰσ ἔξωθεν τοῦ πράγματοσ ἀπολογίασ μὴ προσδέχεσθε, πρῶτον μὲν τῶν ὁρ́κων ἕνεκα οὓσ ὠμόσατε, δεύτερον δὲ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ παρακρουσθῆναι ὑπὸ ἀνθρώπου τεχνίτου λόγων. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1701)
  • εὐχερῶσ γὰρ ἐνίοτε λόγον ἄνευ χρηστοῦ βίου προσδέχεσθε. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1793)
  • ὅταν τοίνυν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἃσ ὁ νομοθέτησ ἀρχὰσ ὀνομάζει, οὗτοι προσαγορεύωσι πραγματείασ καὶ ἐπιμελείασ, ὑμέτερον ἔργον ἐστὶν ἀπομνημονεύειν καὶ ἀντιτάττειν τὸν νόμον πρὸσ τὴν τούτων ἀναίδειαν, καὶ ὑποβάλλειν αὐτοῖσ, ὅτι οὐ προσδέχεσθε κακοῦργον σοφιστήν, οἰόμενον ῥήμασι τοὺσ νόμουσ ἀναιρήσειν, ἀλλ’ ὅσῳ ἄν τισ ἄμεινον λέγῃ παράνομα γεγραφώσ, τοσούτῳ μείζονοσ ὀργῆσ τεύξεται. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 16 1:1)
  • τῇ δὲ τριακοστῇ προσδέχεσθέ με ἡμέρᾳ τὰσ ἀποκρίσεισ ληψόμενον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 35 9:6)

Synonyms

  1. to admit

  2. waiting for or expecting

  3. to wait patiently

Derived

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

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