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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

  • ἡ δὲ σκέψισ περὶ τῶν μετοίκων καὶ ξένων. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 1:4)
  • βούλομαι δὲ ἤδη καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ῥητόρων ἀποδοῦναι τὸν λόγον, ἵνα μή τισ ἀγνοίᾳ με δόξῃ παραλιπεῖν αὐτοὺσ ἐπιφανεῖσ ὄντασ καὶ ὀνόματοσ ἠξιωμένουσ οὐ μετρίου ἢ φυγῇ τοῦ πόνου τὸ ῥᾷστον αἱρούμενον τῶν ἔργων τὴν περὶ αὐτῶν ἀφεικέναι σκέψιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 191)
  • τοὐντεῦθεν τὴν σκέψιν ἐποιοῦντο, πρῶτον μὲν περὶ τοῦ χωρίου, δεύτερον δὲ ἥτισ ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ ὁ τρόποσ ἂν γένοιτο τῆσ ἐπιχειρήσεωσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 9:1)
  • διόπερ δεῖ ποιεῖσθαι σκέψιν καὶ διανέμειν τε καὶ ἀνιέναι κατ’ ἀξίαν ἕκαστα, καὶ τροφὴν καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀργίαν καὶ κολάσεισ, λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ μιμουμένουσ τὴν τῶν ἰατρῶν δύναμιν ἐν φαρμάκου λόγῳ, προσθεωροῦντασ ὅτι ἡ τροφὴ οὐ φάρμακον διὰ τὸ συνεχέσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 29:2)
  • δοκεῖτε δέ μοι, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Δελφοί, ἄριστα βουλεύσεσθαι περὶ τῶν παρόντων, εἰ λογίσαισθε ὑπὲρ ὅσων καὶ ἡλίκων ἐστὶν ἡ σκέψισ, πρῶτον μὲν ὑπὲρ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ θυσιῶν καὶ ἀναθημάτων καὶ ἐθῶν ἀρχαίων καὶ θεσμῶν παλαιῶν καὶ δόξησ τοῦ μαντείου, ἔπειτα ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὅλησ καὶ τῶν συμφερόντων τῷ τε κοινῷ ἡμῶν καὶ ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ Δελφῶν, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τῆσ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ εὐκλείασ ἢ κακοδοξίασ· (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 10:1)
  • ἡ μὲν σκέψισ, ὦ Ἄπολλον, οὕτω περὶ μεγάλων, ὥστε μὴ καθ’ ἡλικίαν, ἀλλὰ κοινὸν ἅπασι προκεῖσθαι τὸν λόγον χάριεν γάρ, εἰ περὶ τῶν ἐσχάτων κινδυνεύοντεσ περὶ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ νόμοισ ἐξουσίασ μικρολογούμεθα. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 26:2)
  • ἀλλὰ οἶσθα περὶ ὅτου ἡ σκέψισ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 30:12)
  • φοβερόν ἐστι τὸ κρυπτόμενον, σκυθρωπὸν ἀγέλαστον δυσπρόσιτον, ὀργῆσ τινοσ ὑπούλου θησαυρὸσ ἢ τιμωρίασ βαρυθύμου σκέψισ ἢ ζηλοτυπία γυναικὸσ ἢ πρὸσ υἱὸν ὑποψία τισ ἢ πρὸσ φίλον ἀπιστία. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 4 2:1)

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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