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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

  • καὶ μάλα γ’, ἔφη ὁ Ἰσχόμαχοσ, πολλὰ ὑπισχνουμένη μὲν πρὸσ τοὺσ θεοὺσ γενέσθαι οἱάν δεῖ, καὶ εὔδηλοσ ἦν ὅτι οὐκ ἀμελήσει τῶν διδασκομένων. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 9:1)
  • δὲ καὶ τούτου ἀπάτη, πάνυ ὡραία καὶ πιθανή, κεκοσμημένη κόσμοισπορνικοῖσ, μειδιῶσα καὶ ὑπισχνουμένη πλῆθοσ ἀγαθῶν, ὡσ ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ἄγουσα τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν, ἑώσ ἂν εἰσ τὸ βάραθρον καταβάλῃ λαθοῦσα, εἰσ πολύν τε καὶ ῥυπαρὸν βόρβορον, ἔπειτα ἐάσῃ κυλινδεῖσθαι μετὰ τῶν στεφάνων καὶ τοῦ κροκωτοῦ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 133:1)

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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