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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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀληθινὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ γεωργὸσ οὐδὲ τὸν αὐτομάτωσ ἐρχόμενον ἐκ πόλεωσ λόγον ἡδέωσ προσδέχεται, λέγων, εἶτά μοι σκάπτων ἐρεῖ ἐφ’ οἷσ γεγόνασιν αἱ διαλύσεισ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 7 3:4)
  • οὐδὲ τὸν αὐτομάτωσ ἐρχόμενον ἐκ πόλεωσ λόγον ἡδέωσ προσδέχεται, λέγων εἶτά μοι σκάπτων ἐρεῖ, ἐφ’ οἷσ γεγόνασιν αἱ διαλύσεισ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 7 8:1)
  • ὑγρὰ ῥᾷον ἢ τὰ ξηρὰ προσδέχεται, καὶ πότερον φύσει πυκνὸν ἔχει τὸν σφυγμὸν ἢ μανόν· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 26 3:2)
  • προθέσεισ τε γὰρ ἀφῄρηκε πλὴν ὀλίγων ἁπάσασ, τῶν τε καλουμένων ἄρθρων οὐδὲν προσδέχεται τὸ παράπαν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἀκρασπέδοισ χρῆται τοῖσ ὀνόμασι. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 10, section 3 3:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ γιγνομένη καὶ συντρεφομένη φύσισ οὐδαμῇ προσδέχεται πυκνὸν ὀστοῦν καὶ σάρκα πολλὴν ἅμα τε αὐτοῖσ ὀξυήκοον αἴσθησιν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 376:2)

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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