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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

  • καθορῶντεσ γὰρ ἄλλοι ἀνθρωπίσκοι κενὴν τὴν χώραν ταύτην γιγνομένην, καλῶν δὲ ὀνομάτων καὶ προσχημάτων μεστήν, ὥσπερ οἱ ἐκ τῶν εἱργμῶν εἰσ τὰ ἱερὰ ἀποδιδράσκοντεσ, ἅσμενοι καὶ οὗτοι ἐκ τῶν τεχνῶν ἐκπηδῶσιν εἰσ τὴν φιλοσοφίαν, οἳ ἂν κομψότατοι ὄντεσ τυγχάνωσι περὶ τὸ αὑτῶν τεχνίον. (Plato, Republic, book 6 246:2)

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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