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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

  • 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 οἱο͂σ 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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