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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

  • εἰ δὲ μὴ προσδέχοιτο, ὥσπερ οὐ προσίετο, οὐκ ἐάσειν ὑμᾶσ παρελθεῖν αὐτὸν ἡγεῖτο, ἀλλὰ βοηθήσειν εἰσ Πύλασ, ὅπερ, εἰ μὴ παρεκρούσθητε, ἐποιήσατ’ ἄν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 408:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ οὖν διενενοήμην καὶ παρὰ τοῦτον φοιτᾶν, ᾠήθην δεῖν ὑπείκειν, μή με σκαιὸν ἡγησάμενοσ φοιτητὴν μὴ προσδέχοιτο. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 307:3)
  • οἱ δ’ ἄνθρωποι ὡσ ἔγνωσαν ὅτι προσδέχοιτο, ἧκον ἀμήχανοι τὸ πλῆθοσ· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 45:1)
  • εἰ δέ τισ χώρα τὸ φυτὸν τῆσ ἀμπέλου μὴ προσδέχοιτο, διδάξαι τὸ ἐκ τῆσ κριθῆσ κατασκευαζόμενον πόμα, λειπόμενον οὐ πολὺ τῆσ περὶ τὸν οἶνον εὐωδίασ τε καὶ δυνάμεωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 20 4:1)
  • ἐὰν δὲ μὴ βούληται γαμεῖν ὁ ἀδελφόσ, ἐπὶ τὴν γερουσίαν ἐλθοῦσα ἡ γυνὴ μαρτυράσθω τοῦθ’, ὅτι βουλομένην αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ οἴκου μένειν καὶ τεκνοῦν ἐξ αὐτοῦ μὴ προσδέχοιτο ὑβρίζων τὴν τοῦ τεθνηκότοσ ἀδελφοῦ μνήμην. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 325:1)

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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