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προσδόκιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσδόκιμος προσδόκιμον

Structure: προσδοκιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. expected, looked for, to be expected
  2. expected to come to, against

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ ὑπολαβόντεσ οὐκ ἄν ποτε προέσθαι τοσαῦτα χρήματα τὸν Τιμόθεον αὐτοῖσ, εἰ μὴ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ προσδόκιμα ἦν τὰ χρήματα πρὸσ αὐτόν, ἡσυχίαν εἶχον ὑπὲρ τῶν μισθῶν ἑώσ ἐκεῖνοσ διῳκήσατο ἃ ἐβούλετο. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 87:1)

Synonyms

  1. expected

  2. expected to come to

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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