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προτίμησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προτίμησις προτίμησεως

Structure: προτιμησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from proti_ma/w

Sense

  1. an honouring before, preference

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

  • οἱ γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ πόλεσι προστάντεσ, μετὰ ὀνόματοσ ἑκάτεροι εὐπρεποῦσ, πλήθουσ τε ἰσονομίασ πολιτικῆσ καὶ ἀριστοκρατίασ σώφρονοσ προτιμήσει, τὰ μὲν κοινὰ λόγῳ θεραπεύοντεσ ἆθλα ἐποιοῦντο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 33 1:3)
  • καὶ λόγῳ κρούων ἕκαστον, ὡσ πέφυκεν ἐμμελὲσ ὑπηχεῖν ἤδη μέντοι συμβούλῳ Πλάτωνι χρησάμενοσ, πηκτίδασ, σαμβύκασ καὶ ψαλτήρια πολύφθογγα καὶ βαρβίτουσ καὶ τρίγωνα παραπέμψασ, τὴν λύραν καὶ τὴν κιθάραν προτιμήσει· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 4 1:1)
  • ὅσῃ δ’ αὖ κἀκεῖνοσ εἰσ ἐμὲ χάριτι καὶ προτιμήσει χρώμενοσ διετέλει, οὐ μαρτυρεῖν ἐμὲ δίκαιον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 5 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. an honouring before

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

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