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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

  • "οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἀνδρὸσ ἀγαθοῦ φθεγξαμένου ψηφίσωνται, τὰσ δὲ τῶν ἀποδεδειλιακότων καὶ πονηρῶν ἀνθρώπων φωνὰσ μηδὲ τοῖσ ὠσὶ προσδέχωνται. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1811)
  • ἐὰν δ’ ἀντιπράττωσί σοι καὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ μὴ προσδέχωνται ταῖσ διὰ σὲ καὶ διὰ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν τὴν σὴν γενομέναισ περὶ αὐτοὺσ τύχαισ ὡσ ἀεὶ διαμενούσαισ ἐπαιρόμενοι, τῆσ στρατηγίασ αὐτοῖσ ἀφίστασο φανερῶσ, καὶ μήτε προδότησ γίνου τῶν πεπιστευκότων μήτε πολέμιοσ τῶν ἀναγκαιοτάτων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 48 7:1)
  • εἰσ ἀποτροπὴν δέ, ὅταν κολάσεισ παρὰ θεῶν καὶ φόβουσ καὶ ἀπειλὰσ ἢ διὰ λόγων ἢ διὰ τύπων ἀοράτων τινῶν προσδέχωνται, ἢ καὶ πιστεύωσι περιπεσεῖν τινασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 16:16)
  • ὁ δὲ τὰ μὲν ξενισθεὶσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ προσπίπτουσι, τὰ δ’ εὐέλπισ γενόμενοσ ἐπὶ τῷ δοκεῖν μέσουσ κατὰ πορείαν ἀπειληφέναι τοὺσ Κελτούσ, τοῖσ μὲν χιλιάρχοισ παρήγγειλε τάττειν τὰ στρατόπεδα καὶ βάδην εἰσ τοὔμπροσθεν προάγειν, καθ’ ὅσον ἂν οἱ τόποι προσδέχωνται τὴν μετωπηδὸν ἔφοδον. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 27 4:1)
  • πλήθη γὰρ οὐκ ὀλίγα παρεῖναι τῶν Νομάδων, δι’ ὧν κινδυνεύειν μὲν ἀμφοτέρουσ, ἐκβαρβαρωθήσεσθαι δὲ τὴν χώραν ὁμολογουμένωσ, ἐὰν ἐκείνουσ προσδέχωνται. (Polybius, Histories, book 11, vi. res asiae 5:1)

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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