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θέλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θέλησις θέλησεως

Structure: θελησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qe/lw

Sense

  1. a willing, will

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

  • μνήσθητι πατρὸσ καὶ μητρόσ σου, ἀνὰ μέσον γὰρ μεγιστάνων συνεδρεύεισ. μήποτ̓ ἐπιλάθῃ ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ ἐθισμῷ σου μωρανθῇσ καὶ θελήσεισ εἰ μὴ ἐγεννήθησ καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ τοκετοῦ σου καταράσῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 23:14)
  • Θελήσεισ δὲ οὕτωσ κρανίον γυμνὸν ὢν καὶ ἄμορφον τῇ καλῇ σου ἐκείνῃ νύμφῃ φανῆναι; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:3)
  • πρὸσ γὰρ δὴ πάντα ταῦτα ἦν παρεσκευασμένη τὴν ἀρχὴν ἔχουσα ἡ ἐπιστολή, τῇδέ πῃ φράζουσα ‐ "Διονύσιοσ Πλάτωνι" ‐ τὰ νόμιμα ἐπὶ τούτοισ εἰπὼν οὐδὲν τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο εἶπεν πρότερον ἢ ὡσ "ἂν εἰσ Σικελίαν πεισθεὶσ ὑφ’ ἡμῶν ἔλθῃσ τὰ νῦν, πρῶτον μέν σοι τὰ περὶ Δίωνα ὑπάρξει ταύτῃ γιγνόμενα ὅπῃπερ ἂν αὐτὸσ ἐθέλῃσ ‐ θελήσεισ δὲ οἶδ’ ὅτι τὰ μέτρια, καὶ ἐγὼ συγχωρήσομαι ‐ εἰ δὲ μή, οὐδέν σοι τῶν περὶ Δίωνα ἕξει πραγμάτων οὔτε περὶ τἆλλα οὔτε περὶ αὐτὸν κατὰ νοῦν γιγνόμενα. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 103:3)
  • σύ τε αὐτὸσ οὐ στρατηγόσ, οὐ πρύτανισ ἢ ὕπατοσ εἶναι θελήσεισ, ἀλλ’ ἐλεύθεροσ. (Epictetus, Works, chapter 19 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a willing

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

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