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ὑπόθεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόθεσις ὑποθέσεως

Structure: ὑποθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(poti/qhmi

Sense

  1. proposal
  2. suggestion, advice
  3. purpose
  4. occasion, excuse, pretext
  5. actor's role
  6. function, occupation, station
  7. supposition, assumption, hypothesis
  8. placing under

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ταῦτα μὲν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ἕτερα εἴποι τισ ἂν οἱο͂σ σὺ κατηγορῶν ἐν οὕτωσ ἀμφιλαφεῖ τῇ ὑποθέσει καὶ μυρίασ τὰσ ἀφορμὰσ παρεχομένῃ· (Lucian, Apologia 19:1)
  • φέρειν δὲ ἀνάγκη καὶ τὸ ἀναφυόμενον ἐκκόπτειν ἀεὶ καὶ ἐπικαίειν νὴ Δία κατὰ τὸν Ιὄλεων, εἰ μέλλομεν ἐπικρατήσειν τὸν γὰρ ἅπαξ εἰσ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐμπεσεῖν ἠναγκασμένον ὅμοιον χρὴ τῇ ὑποθέσει καὶ αὐτὸν εἶναι, ἢ φειδόμενον τῶν πλησίον ἀπολωλέναι. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 8:5)
  • Ζεύξιδοσ ἐκεῖνο μάλιστα ἐπῄνεσα, ὅτι ἐν μιᾷ καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ ὑποθέσει ποικίλωσ τὸ περιττὸν ἐπεδείξατο τῆσ τέχνησ, τὸν μὲν ἄνδρα ποιήσασ πάντη φοβερὸν καὶ κομιδῇ ἄγριον, σοβαρὸν τῇ χαίτῃ, λάσιον τὰ πολλὰ οὐ κατὰ τὸν ἵππον αὐτοῦ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ καθ̓ ἕτερον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ ἐξάρασ αὐτῷ τοὺσ ὤμουσ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον, τὸ βλέμμα, καίτοι γελῶντοσ, θηριῶδεσ ὅλον καὶ ὄρειόν τι καὶ ἀνήμερον. (Lucian, Zeuxis 10:1)
  • διὸ οὐκ ἠξίουν αὐτὴν ἔγωγε κενῆσ ὑποθέσιοσ δεῖσθαι ὥσπερ τὰ ἀφανέα τε καὶ ἀπορεόμενα, περὶ ὧν ἀνάγκη, ἤν τισ ἐπιχειρῇ τι λέγειν, ὑποθέσει χρῆσθαι, οἱο͂ν περὶ τῶν μετεώρων ἢ τῶν ὑπὸ γῆν· (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , i.5)
  • ἀτὰρ ἐννοῶ γε, ἔφην, ὦ Ἰσχόμαχε, ὡσ εὖ τῇ ὑποθέσει ὅλον τὸν λόγον βοηθοῦντα παρέσχησαι· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 21 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. proposal

  2. suggestion

  3. purpose

  4. occasion

  5. actor's role

  6. supposition

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