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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

  • τοιαύτη μὲν ἡ ὑπόθεσισ τοῦ λόγου. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 6:3)
  • κοινὴ μὲν γὰρ ἡ ὑπόθεσισ κἀν τῷ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ βίῳ πάνυ πολλή, βαλανείου κατασκευή· (Lucian, (no name) 4:2)
  • οὕτω γὰρ ἂν αὐτοῖσ ἡ ἀπολογία προαναιροῖτο καὶ ἡ πρώτη ὑπόθεσισ τῆσ ἐθελοδουλείασ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 5:2)
  • ὥστε ὁ Ζεῦξισ συνεὶσ ὅτι αὐτοὺσ ἀσχολεῖ ἡ ὑπόθεσισ καινὴ οὖσα καὶ ἀπάγει τῆσ τέχνησ, ὡσ ἐν παρέργῳ τίθεσθαι τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῶν πραγμάτων, Ἄγε δή, ἔφη, ὦ Μικκίων, πρὸσ τὸν μαθητήν, περίβαλε ἤδη τὴν εἰκόνα καὶ ἀράμενοι ἀποκομίζετε οἴκαδε· (Lucian, Zeuxis 13:4)
  • καὶ τό μὲν ἐμόν, οὐ πάνυ ἄχθομαι, ἡ δὲ ὑπόθεσισ οὐ μετρίωσ με λυπήσειν ἐοίκε συνεκπίπτουσα καὶ τὸ ἐμὸν μέροσ ἀσχημονοῦσα. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 8:8)

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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