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πρόσθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσθεσις πρόσθεσεως

Structure: προσθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a putting to, application
  2. an adding, addition

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

  • αἱ δέ γε ἑταῖραι, καὶ μάλιστα αἱ ἀμορφότεραι αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα ὅλην πορφυρᾶν καὶ τὴν δειρὴν χρυσῆν πεποίηνται, τῷ πολυτελεῖ θηρώμεναι τὸ ἐπαγωγὸν καὶ τὸ ἐνδέον τῷ καλῷ προσθέσει τοῦ ἔξωθεν τερπνοῦ παραμυθούμεναι· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:2)
  • τοῦ δὲ πλήθουσ ἀθροισθέντοσ εἰπεῖν μὲν οὐδενὶ γνώμην τῶν ἄλλων ἐφεῖτο, τὴν δ̓ ὑπὸ τῶν γερόντων καὶ τῶν βασιλέων προτεθεῖσαν ἐπικρῖναι κύριοσ ἦν ὁ δῆμοσ, ὕστερον μέντοι τῶν πολλῶν ἀφαιρέσει καὶ προσθέσει τὰσ γνώμασ διαστρεφόντων καὶ παραβιαζομένων, Πολύδωροσ καὶ Θεόπομποσ οἱ βασιλεῖσ τάδε τῇ ῥήτρᾳ παρενέγραψαν· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 6 3:2)
  • ὕστερον μέντοι τῶν πολλῶν ἀφαιρέσει καὶ προσθέσει τὰσ γνώμασ διαστρεφότων καὶ παραβιαζομένων, Πολύδωροσ καὶ Θεόπομποσ οἱ βασιλεῖσ τάδε τῇ ῥήτρᾳ παρενέγραψαν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 54)
  • ἓν μὲν δὴ τοῦτο τὸ πολίτευμα τοῦ βασιλέωσ παραδίδοται καλὸν ἅμα καὶ πραγματικόν, ἐξ οὗ μείζονά τε συνέβη γενέσθαι τὴν πόλιν ἑτέρασ προσθέσει πόλεωσ καὶ πολλῇ χειρὶ πολεμίων ἐπιστρατευσάντων ἧττον εὔληπτον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 43 4:2)
  • ἔτι προσθέσει ἢ ἀφαιρέσει ἢ ἄμφω. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 11 151:2)

Synonyms

  1. a putting to

  2. an adding

Related

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

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