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προσκύνησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσκύνησις προσκύνησεως

Structure: προσκυνησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from proskune/w

Sense

  1. adoration, obeisance, a salam

Declension

Third declension

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

  • "ὡσ ὁρ́κον ὡσ εὐχὴν ὡσ θυσίαν ὡσ προσκύνησιν, ῥήματι καὶ λόγῳ καὶ τῷ φάναι καὶ προσποιεῖσθαι καὶ ὀνομάζειν, ἃ ταῖσ ἀρχαῖσ καὶ τοῖσ δόγμασιν ἀναιροῦσιν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 112)
  • ἀλλὰ τήν γε προσκύνησιν ἰσχυρῶσ ἀπωσάμενοσ καὶ φιλοσόφωσ, καὶ μόνοσ ἐν φανερῷ διελθὼν ἃ κρύφα πάντεσ οἱ βέλτιστοι καὶ πρεσβύτατοι τῶν Μακεδόνων ἠγανάκτουν, τοὺσ μὲν Ἕλληνασ αἰσχύνησ ἀπήλλαξε μεγάλησ, καὶ μείζονοσ Ἀλέξανδρον, ἀποτρέψασ τήν προσκύνησιν, αὑτὸν δὲ ἀπώλεσεν, ἐκβιάσασθαι δοκῶν μᾶλλον ἢ πεῖσαι τὸν βασιλέα. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 54 2:1)
  • "οὐ γὰρ ἄν τινα πείσειεν ἀνθρώπων ὁ τὴν Νεοκλέουσ μαρτυρίαν καὶ τὴν Κωλώτου προσκύνησιν ἐν τοσούτῳ λόγῳ τιθέμενοσ καὶ ἀγαπῶν, ὡσ οὐκ ἂν ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων κροτηθεὶσ Ὀλυμπίασιν ἐξεμάνη καὶ ἀνωλόλυξε, μᾶλλον δ’ ὅλωσ ὑπὸ χαρᾶσ ἤρθη κατὰ τὸν Σοφοκλέα γραίασ ἀκάνθησ πάπποσ ὡσ φυσώμενοσ. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 192)
  • καὶ οὖν ἐνθυμήθητι, ἐκεῖσε ἐπανελθὼν ἆρά γε καὶ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ τοὺσ ἐλευθερωτάτουσ προσαναγκάσεισ ἐσ τὴν προσκύνησιν, ἢ Ἑλλήνων μὲν ἀφέξῃ, Μακεδόσι δὲ προσθήσεισ τήνδε τὴν ἀτιμίαν, ἢ διακεκριμένα ἔσται σοι αὐτῷ τὰ τῶν τιμῶν ἐσ ἅπαν, ὡσ πρὸσ Ἑλλήνων μὲν καὶ Μακεδόνων ἀνθρωπίνωσ τε καὶ Ἑλληνικῶσ τιμᾶσθαι, πρὸσ δὲ τῶν βαρβάρων μόνων βαρβαρικῶσ; (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 11 8:1)

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

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