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

  • ἦν δὲ ἄδιψοσ διὰ τέλεοσ‧ γεύματα οὐ προσεδέχετο. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 76)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἔγνω τοῦ ἔτι ζῆν τὸ τεθνάναι αὐτῷ κρεῖττον εἶναι, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ πρὸσ τἆλλα τἀγαθὰ προσάντησ ἦν, οὐδὲ πρὸσ τὸν θάνατον ἐμαλακίσατο, ἀλλ’ ἱλαρῶσ καὶ προσεδέχετο αὐτὸν καὶ ἐπετελέσατο. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 36:2)
  • ὁ δὲ οὐ προσεδέχετο, δεομένου Τισσαφέρνουσ καὶ λέγοντοσ, ἅπερ αὐτὸσ ἐποίει πεισθεὶσ ὑπ’ Ἀλκιβιάδου, σκοπεῖν ὅπωσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων μηδὲ οἵτινεσ ἰσχυροὶ ὦσιν, ἀλλὰ πάντεσ ἀσθενεῖσ, αὐτοὶ ἐν αὑτοῖσ στασιάζοντεσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 5 10:1)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, ἀντὶ τῆσ πρόσθεν εὐκλείασ πολλὴν ἀδοξίαν προσεδέχετο. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 5 11:2)
  • ἅμα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ στὰσ ὅπου ἐδόκει ἐπιτήδειον εἶναι προσεδέχετο τὸν βουλόμενον λέγειν τι καὶ ἀποκρινάμενοσ ἀπέπεμπεν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 44:3)

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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