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ὑπόθεσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: hypothesis

Principal Part: ὑπόθεσις ὑποθέσεως

Structure: ὑποθεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

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

  • ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τούτου νῦν αὐτίκα δὴ λέγειν ἐξέσται ἀρξαμένῳ τῆς ὑποθέσεως, ὥσπερ εἴωθα ποιεῖν, καὶ οὕτως εἰς τὸν περὶ αὐτῶν τρέψομαι λόγον δόξαν διδοὺς τῷ πανσόφῳ Θεῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:11)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ τὸ μὲν εὐχαριστεῖν τῷ μεταβάλλοντι τὰ πράγματα χρόνῳ καὶ τὸ τοὺς τὰ κράτιστα προαιρουμένους ἐπαινεῖν καὶ τὸ τὰ μέλλοντα ἐκ τῶν γεγονότων εἰκάζειν καὶ πάντα τὰ παραπλήσια τούτοις, ἃ κἂν ὁ τυχὼν εἰπεῖν δύναιτο, ἀφήσω, ἐξ ὧν δ ἂν ἔτι μείζω λάβοι τὰ κρείττονα ἰσχύν, ταῦτα πειράσομαι λέγειν, ὑπόθεσιν τοῦ λόγου κοινὴν καὶ φιλάνθρωπον καὶ πλεῖστα δυναμένην ὠφελῆσαι λαβών. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 41)
  • ταῦτα μὲν καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ἕτερα εἴποι τις ἂν οἱο῀ς σὺ κατηγορῶν ἐν οὕτως ἀμφιλαφεῖ τῇ ὑποθέσει καὶ μυρίας τὰς ἀφορμὰς παρεχομένῃ: (Lucian, Apologia 19:1)
  • τοιαύτη μὲν ἡ ὑπόθεσις τοῦ λόγου. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 6:3)
  • 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)
  • 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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