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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

  • ἴδοι δ’ ἄν τισ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ μάλιστα ἔν τε βασιλέων αὐλαῖσ καὶ περὶ τὰσ τῶν ἀρχόντων καὶ δυναστευόντων φιλίασ εὐδοκιμοῦντασ, ἔνθα πολὺσ μὲν ὁ φθόνοσ, μυρίαι δὲ ὑπόνοιαι, πάμπολλαι δὲ κολακειῶν καὶ διαβολῶν ὑποθέσεισ· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 10:1)
  • συγγνώμη γάρ, εἴ τι ἀνθρώπινον πεπόνθατε, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ πρὸσ οὕτω καλὰσ καὶ ποικίλασ τὰσ ὑποθέσεισ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 21:5)
  • ἀλλὰ συμβέβηκε τῷ μὲν μίαν ὑπόθεσιν λαβόντι πολλὰ ποιῆσαι μέρη τὸ ἓν σῶμα, τῷ δὲ τὰσ πολλὰσ καὶ οὐδὲν ἐοικυίασ ὑποθέσεισ προελομένῳ σύμφωνον ἓν σῶμα πεποιηκέναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 14:3)
  • πρῶτον μὲν γὰρ τὰσ ὑποθέσεισ τῶν ἱστοριῶν ἐξελέξατο καλὰσ καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖσ καὶ ἀνδρὶ φιλοσόφῳ προσηκούσασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 4 1:3)
  • ἐμοὶ γοῦν οἱ μὲν Ἰσαίου τε καὶ Δημοσθένουσ λόγοι, κἂν περὶ ἀληθεῖσ καὶ δικαίασ συνταχθῶσιν ὑποθέσεισ, ὕποπτοι δοκοῦσιν εἶναι τῆσ πολλῆσ ἐπιτεχνήσεωσ ἕνεκα, οἱ δὲ Ἰσοκράτουσ καὶ Λυσίου παντὸσ μάλιστα δίκαιοί τε καὶ ἀληθεῖσ, κἂν μὴ τοιαῦτα τὰ πράγματα ἐν αὐτοῖσ, ὅτι κακοῦργον οὐδὲν ἐπιφαίνουσιν ἐπὶ τῆσ κατασκευῆσ, ἀλλ’ εἰσὶν ἐλεύθεροί τινεσ καὶ ἀφελεῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 4 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. proposal

  2. suggestion

  3. purpose

  4. occasion

  5. actor's role

  6. supposition

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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