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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

  • πάντα τὸν χρόνον οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ τῶν κακῶν προσδέχονται κακά, οἱ δὲ ἀγαθοὶ ἡσυχάζουσι διαπαντόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 15:15)
  • ἀψύχοισ γὰρ πεποιθότεσ εἰδώλοισ κακῶσ ὀμόσαντεσ, ἀδικηθῆναι οὐ προσδέχονται. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:29)
  • αὑτοῖσ καὶ προσπλάττοντεσ ἀεὶ βαρύτεροι γίγνονται καὶ τῶν χολερικῶν οὐδὲν διαφέρουσιν, οἳ θεραπείαν μὲν οὐ προσδέχονται, τὸ δὲ προστεταγμένον ἐξερῶντεσ, εἶτα πλέον αὖθισ συλλέγοντεσ ἀεὶ διατελοῦσι· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 15:2)
  • τι βουλομένουσ χρήσιμον εἰ δὲ μή, γέμοντεσ ὄγκου καὶ φυσήματοσ οὐ προσδέχονται. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 4 5:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ τὰ εἰωθότα ὑπερβάλλον, τοῦτο παρέχει τὰσ ἡδονάσ, διὸ καὶ πάντεσ ἄνθρωποι ἡδέωσ προσδέχονται τὰσ ἑορτὰσ πλὴν οἱ τύραννοι, ἔκπλεῳ γὰρ αὐτοῖσ ἀεὶ παρεσκευασμέναι οὐδεμίαν ἐν ταῖσ ἑορταῖσ ἐπίδοσιν ἔχουσιν αὐτῶν αἱ τράπεζαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 24 1:3)

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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