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σκέψις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκέψις σκέψεως

Structure: σκεψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ske/ptomai

Sense

  1. a viewing, perception by the senses
  2. speculation, consideration, thought, inquiry into, speculation on
  3. hesitation, doubt

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

  • πάντεσ γὰρ αὐτοὺσ φυλάττονται καὶ ἀποκρύπτονται, καὶ οὔτε πρᾶξαί τι πολυπράγμονοσ ὁρῶντοσ οὔτ’ εἰπεῖν ἀκούοντοσ ἡδέωσ ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ βουλὰσ ἀνατίθενται καὶ σκέψεισ πραγμάτων ὑπερβάλλονται, μέχρι ἂν ἐκποδὼν ὁ τοιοῦτοσ γένηται· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 9 1:1)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ βουλὰσ ἀνατίθενται καὶ σκέψεισ πραγμάτων ὑπερβάλλονται, μέχρι ἂν ἐκποδὼν ὁ τοιοῦτοσ γένηται· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 9 3:1)
  • πλὴν τόν γε Δημάδην πάντεσ ὡμολόγουν τῇ φύσει χρώμενον ἀνίκητον εἶναι, καὶ παραφέρειν αὐτοσχεδιάζοντα τὰσ τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ σκέψεισ καὶ παρασκευάσ. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 10 1:1)
  • καὶ κατιόντα ἐπὶ τὸ Φαληρικὸν πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν κυμάτων ἐμβολὰσ τὰσ σκέψεισ ποιεῖσθαι, ἵν’, εἴ ποτε θορυβοίη ὁ δῆμοσ, μὴ ἐκσταίη · (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 12:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐστὶν ὀλίγα μὲν τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἐξ ὧν οἱ ῥητορικοὶ συλλογισμοί εἰσι τὰ γὰρ πολλὰ περὶ ὧν αἱ κρίσεισ καὶ αἱ σκέψεισ ἐνδέχεται καὶ ἄλλωσ ἔχειν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 2 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a viewing

  2. speculation

  3. hesitation

Related

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

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