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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

  • αὐτοὶ γὰρ σφέασ οἱ Ἕλληνεσ ἐπεκαλέσαντο, λέγοντεσ δι’ ἀγγέλων ὡσ αὐτοὶ μὲν ἥκοιεν πρόδρομοι τῶν ἄλλων, οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ τῶν συμμάχων προσδόκιμοι πᾶσαν εἰε͂ν ἡμέρην, ἡ θάλασσά τέ σφι εἰή ἐν φυλακῇ ὑπ’ Ἀθηναίων τε φρουρεομένη καὶ Αἰγινητέων καὶ τῶν ἐσ τὸν ναυτικὸν στρατὸν ταχθέντων, καί σφι εἰή δεινὸν οὐδέν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 203 2:2)

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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