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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

  • νόμου ὄντοσ ἐν Βαβυλωνίᾳ παλαιοῦ δεκάτην εἶναι τῶν εἰσαγομένων, χρωμένου δὲ αὐτῷ οὐθενόσ, τηρήσασ τούσ τε σατράπασ ἅπαντασ προσδοκίμουσ ὄντασ καὶ στρατιώτασ, οὐκ ὀλίγουσ τε πρέσβεισ καὶ τεχνίτασ κλητοὺσ ἄλλουσ τοὺσ ἄγοντασ καὶ ἰδίᾳ ἀποδημοῦντασ, καὶ δῶρα πολλὰ ἀναγόμενα, τὴν δεκάτην ἔπρασσε κατὰ τὸν νόμον τὸν κείμενον. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 124:2)

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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