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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

  • ὡσ θαυμάσια πάντα καὶ οὐδὲν ὑπισχνῇ μέτριον. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 42:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅπερ ὑπισχνῇ, μὴ ψεύσῃ, ἀλλὰ ἐθέλησον κατὰ βραχὺ τὸ ἐρωτώμενον ἀποκρίνεσθαι. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 14:4)
  • καὶ μήν, ὦ Κῦρε, λέγουσί τινεσ ὅτι πολλὰ ὑπισχνῇ νῦν διὰ τὸ ἐν τοιούτῳ εἶναι τοῦ κινδύνου προσιόντοσ, ἂν δὲ εὖ γένηταί τι, οὐ μεμνήσεσθαί σέ φασιν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 6:2)
  • ἔνιοι δὲ οὐδ’ εἰ μεμνῇό τε καὶ βούλοιο δύνασθαι ἂν ἀποδοῦναι ὅσα ὑπισχνῇ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 6:3)

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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