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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

  • τῶν δ’ ἐπὶ τὴν βοήθειαν παρακεκλημένων οἱ μὲν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ στρατιώτασ ἐξέπεμψαν ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσθμὸν καὶ διατρίβοντεσ ἐκαραδόκουν, προσδοκίμου τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὄντοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 7 19:1)
  • προσδοκίμου γὰρ ὄντοσ τοῦ Δαρείου καὶ μελλούσησ μεγάλησ παρατάξεωσ συντελεῖσθαι νομίσαι τοὺσ Μακεδόνασ ἐκθυμότερον ἀγωνιεῖσθαι παραιρεθείσησ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν φυγὴν ἐλπίδοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 23 1:2)

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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