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

  • Οὐκοῦν ὅσον μὲν ἐπὶ τῷ ὑπισχνεῖσθαι καὶ φάσκειν εἰδέναι πολλὴ ἀφθονία τῶν ἡγησομένων· (Lucian, 51:5)
  • ἂν δ’ ᾖ ἄπιστον, ὑπισχνεῖσθαι δεῖ καὶ αἰτίαν λέγειν εὐθὺσ καὶ διατάττειν ὡσ βούλονται, οἱο͂ν ἡ Ιὀκάστη ἡ Καρκίνου ἐν τῷ Οἰδίποδι ἀεὶ ὑπισχνεῖται πυνθανομένου τοῦ ζητοῦντοσ τὸν υἱόν, καὶ ὁ Αἵμων ὁ Σοφοκλέουσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 16 11:4)
  • ἐὰν δὲ μηδ’ οὕτωσ ἀξιόχρεωσ ἡ δύναμισ αὐτοῖσ εἶναι δοκῇ, Λατίνουσ τε καὶ Ἕρνικασ παρακαλεῖν, ἐὰν δ’ ἀνάγκη, καὶ δούλοισ ἐλευθερίαν ὑπισχνεῖσθαι καὶ πάντασ μᾶλλον ἢ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τοιούτων καιρῶν μνησικακοῦντασ σφίσι παρακαλεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 15 8:1)
  • ἀποκριναμένου δὲ τοῦ μειρακίου ὁπόσα τοὺσ ἐν ἀπογνώσει βίου κειμένουσ ἡ τοῦ σωθήσεσθαι ἐλπὶσ τοῖσ κυρίοισ τούτου λέγειν καὶ ὑπισχνεῖσθαι ἐπαίρει, λῦσαι κελεύσασ αὐτὸν ὁ Νεμέτωρ καὶ πάντασ ἀπελθεῖν ἐκποδῶν φράζει τὰσ αὑτοῦ τύχασ, ὡσ Ἀμόλιοσ αὐτὸν ἀδελφὸσ ὢν ἀπεστέρησε τῆσ βασιλείασ ὀρφανόν τε τέκνων ἔθηκε, τὸν μὲν ἐπὶ θήρᾳ κρύφα διαχειρισάμενοσ, τὴν δ’ ἐν εἱρκτῇ δεδεμένην φυλάττων, τά τε ἄλλα ὁπόσα δεσπότησ χρώμενοσ δούλῳ λωβᾶται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 81 9:1)
  • ἥκιστα δ’ ὢν οἱο͂σ μεγαληγορεῖν ὅμωσ τῶν ἐπαινούντων αὑτοὺσ οὐ βαρέωσ ἤκουεν, ἡγούμενοσ βλάπτειν οὐδὲν αὐτούσ, ὑπισχνεῖσθαι δὲ ἄνδρασ ἀγαθοὺσ ἔσεσθαι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 3:3)

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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