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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

  • δευτέρασ οὖν σκέψεωσ ἀρχὴ προὐτέθη, τίσ ἀρίστη τῶν τεχνῶν καὶ ῥᾴστη ἐκμαθεῖν καὶ ἀνδρὶ ἐλευθέρῳ πρέπουσα καὶ πρόχειρον ἔχουσα τὴν χορηγίαν καὶ διαρκῆ τὸν πόρον. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 2:1)
  • Ῥωμύλῳ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ βουλῆσ καὶ σκέψεωσ περὶ κοινῶν συμφερόντων διαφορᾶσ γενομένησ οὐκ ἄν ἠξίωσέ τισ ἄφνω τὴν διάνοιαν ἐν τηλικούτῳ πάθει γενέσθαι· (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 3 2:1)
  • ὄντα δὲ γνώριμον τῷι Ἀρχύτᾳ καὶ φιλοσοφίασ οὐ παντελῶσ ἀλλότριον ἀπαντᾶν εἰσ τὰ τεμένη καὶ συμπεριπατεῖν τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Ἀρχύταν ἀκροώμενον τῶν λόγων, ἐμπεσούσησ δέ ποτε ἀπορίασ καὶ σκέψεωσ περί τε τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν καὶ τὸ σύνολον περὶ τῶν σωματικῶν ἡδονῶν ἔφη ὁ Πολύαρχοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 643)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ κατὰ Μειδίου τὴν τῆσ σκέψεωσ ὠφέλειαν ἐναργῶσ παρίστησι. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 9 9:3)
  • πολλῶν δ’ ὄντων θεωρημάτων ἃ περὶ ἕκαστον πρᾶγμα καὶ περὶ ἑκάστην φύσιν ἀπορίαν ἔχει καὶ δεῖται σκέψεωσ, τὰ μὲν αὐτῶν συντείνει πρὸσ τὸ γνῶναι μόνον, τὰ δὲ καὶ περὶ τὰσ κτήσεισ καὶ περὶ τὰσ πράξεισ τοῦ πράγματοσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 5:1)

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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