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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

  • πρῶτον μὲν τό, πρὶν ἀπαρτίσαι τὸ ἡγούμενον εἴτε νόημα χρὴ λέγειν εἴτε κῶλον, ἕτερον παρεμβαλεῖν καὶ μηδὲ τοῦ δευτέρου τέλοσ ἔχοντοσ τὸ τρίτον ἐπιζεῦξαι, εἶτα τὴν τοῦ δευτέρου νοήματοσ ἀκολουθίαν ἐπὶ τῷ τρίτῳ τέλοσ εἰληφότι θεῖναι, κἄπειτα ἐπὶ πᾶσιν, ὃ τοῦ πρώτου μέροσ ἦν, διὰ μακροῦ καὶ οὐκέτι τῆσ διανοίασ αὐτὸ προσδεχομένησ ἀποδοῦναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 9 5:2)
  • ἐπιθέμενοσ δὲ Μεσσηνίοισ καί τοὺσ πλείστουσ στρατιώτασ ἀπολέσασ, ἐν οἷσ ἦσαν οἱ Δίωνα κατακτείναντεσ, οὐδεμιᾶσ δὲ πόλεωσ αὐτὸν ἐν Σικελίᾳ προσδεχομένησ, ἀλλὰ μισούντων ἁπάντων καί προβαλλομένων, Ῥήγιον κατέσχεν. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 58 3:1)

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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