Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • πλὴν οὐ δίκαιον οἶμαι ἀποκηρύττεσθαι τὸν ἃ μὴ δύναται ποιεῖν μηδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ὑπισχνούμενον. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 2:7)
  • τί καὶ Ἀντιφῶντα τὸν Μενεκράτουσ μνᾶν ὑπισχνούμενον οὐδὲ τοῦτον ἐδέξω; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:11)
  • οὔτε γὰρ τοῦτον ἀποπέμψαι καλὸν τάλαντον ἔναγχοσ δεδωκότα καὶ τἆλλα ἔμπορον ὄντα καὶ πολλὰ ὑπισχνούμενον, οὔτε Πολέμωνα τοιοῦτον ἐπανήκοντα χρήσιμον μὴ παραδέχεσθαι· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:2)
  • ὁ μέντοι Δρόμων ἔφασκε παιδεραστήν τινα εἶναι τὸν Ἀρισταίνετον καὶ ἐπὶ προφάσει τῶν μαθημάτων συνεῖναι τοῖσ ὡραιοτάτοισ τῶν νέων καὶ ἰδίᾳ λογοποιεῖσθαι πρὸσ τὸν Κλεινίαν ὑποσχέσεισ τινὰσ ὑπισχνούμενον ὡσ ἰσόθεον ἀποφανεῖ αὐτόν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:5)
  • Ἐκεῖνον αὐτὸν ἀεὶ ἐθεράπευον ὑπισχνούμενον ἐπ̓ ἐμοὶ τεθνήξεσθαι. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 1:8)

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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