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ὑπισχνέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπισχνέομαι ὑποσχήσομαι ὑπεσχόμην ὑπέσχημαι

Structure: ὑπ (Prefix) + ἰσχνέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a collat. form of u(pe/xomai

Sense

  1. to promise or engage, to take upon oneself, to undertake to do, to promise
  2. to promise, make promises
  3. to profess that, profess, to profess

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • τοῦτο ἤν πωσ κροκόδειλοσ ἁρπάσῃ πλησίον τοῦ ποταμοῦ πλαζόμενον εὑρών, κᾆτά σοι ἀποδώσειν ὑπισχνῆται αὐτό, ἢν εἴπῃσ τἀληθὲσ ὅ τι δέδοκται αὐτῷ περὶ τῆσ ἀποδόσεωσ τοῦ βρέφουσ, τί φήσεισ αὐτὸν ἐγνωκέναι; (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 21:9)
  • Εἂν δὲ ἀστρονόμοσ εἶναί τισ ὑπισχνῆται καὶ σαφέστατα ἐπίστασθαι τὰσ περιόδουσ καὶ πορείασ καὶ τὰ ἀποστήματα πῶσ ἔχουσι πρὸσ ἄλληλα ἡλίου τε καὶ σελήνησ καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἄστρων καὶ τὰ οὐράνια πάθη, μηδὲν δὲ τοιοῦτον ᾖ προῃρημένοσ μηδὲ περὶ ταῦτα φροντίζων, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον συνὼν τοῖσ κυβεύουσι καὶ μετ̓ ἐκείνων ἑκάστοτε ζῶν καὶ βλεπόμενοσ, ἀστρονόμον τοῦτον φήσεισ ἢ κυβευτήν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. to promise or engage

  2. to promise

  3. to profess that

Similar forms

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

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