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πρόσχημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσχημα πρόσχηματος

Structure: προσχηματ (Stem)

Etym.: proe/xw

Sense

  1. that which is held before
  2. a screen, cloak, a plea, pretence, pretext, ostensible cause, a pretence or show, to pretend, as a screen or disguise, by way of pretext
  3. outward show, ornament, chief ornament, the outward show

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

  • μέλλησισ δὲ προμηθὴσ δειλία εὐπρεπήσ, τὸ δὲ σῶφρον πρόσχημα τοῦ ἀνάνδρου, καὶ τὸ εἰσ ἅπαν ξυνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀργόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 178)
  • πρώτιστα μὲν γὰρ ἕνα τιν’ ἂν καθῖσεν ἐγκαλύψασ, Ἀχιλλέα τιν’ ἢ Νιόβην, τὸ πρόσωπον οὐχὶ δεικνύσ, πρόσχημα τῆσ τραγῳδίασ, γρύζοντασ οὐδὲ τουτί. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Epirrheme2)
  • καθάπερ ἣν σὺ νῦν Ἀθήνησι μεταχειρίζῃ τῆσ ἐξ Ἀρείου πάγου βουλῆσ ἐπιστασίαν καὶ νὴ Δία τὸ πρόσχημα τῆσ· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 20 1:2)
  • τὸ δὲ σῶφρον τοῦ ἀνάνδρου πρόσχημα, καὶ τὸ πρὸσ ἅπαν συνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀργόν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 29 3:4)
  • αὕτη γὰρ ἦν πρόφασισ καὶ τοῦτο πρόσχημα τοῖσ καθιστᾶσι τὴν ὀλιγαρχίαν. (Plutarch, , chapter 26 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. outward show

Related

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

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