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ὑπόσχεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόσχεσις ὑπόσχεσεως

Structure: ὑποσχεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(pisxne/omai

Sense

  1. an undertaking, engagement, promise, a promise, their, its
  2. a profession

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

  • τῶν σοφῶν ἐκείνουσ μάλιστα ἔγωγέ φημι δεῖν ἐπαινεῖν, ὁπόσοι μὴ λόγουσ μόνον δεξιοὺσ παρέσχοντο ὑπὲρ τῶν πραγμάτων ἑκάστων, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔργοισ ὁμοίοισ τὰσ τῶν λόγων ὑποσχέσεισ ἐπιστώσαντο. (Lucian, (no name) 1:1)
  • νῦν ὁρᾷσ παρὰ τοῦ νεανίσκου ἡλίκα λαμβάνομεν, ὃσ ὀβολὸν μὲν οὐδεπώποτέ σοι δέδωκεν, οὐκ ἐσθῆτα, οὐχ ὑποδήματα, οὐ μύρον, ἀλλὰ προφάσεισ ἀεὶ καὶ ὑποσχέσεισ καὶ μακραὶ ἐλπίδεσ καὶ πολὺ τό, ἐὰν ὁ πατὴρ . (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:2)
  • ὁ μέντοι Δρόμων ἔφασκε παιδεραστήν τινα εἶναι τὸν Ἀρισταίνετον καὶ ἐπὶ προφάσει τῶν μαθημάτων συνεῖναι τοῖσ ὡραιοτάτοισ τῶν νέων καὶ ἰδίᾳ λογοποιεῖσθαι πρὸσ τὸν Κλεινίαν ὑποσχέσεισ τινὰσ ὑπισχνούμενον ὡσ ἰσόθεον ἀποφανεῖ αὐτόν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:5)
  • ὁρᾷ γὰρ ὑμᾶσ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἐλπίσι κεναῖσ καὶ ψευδέσι λόγοισ ἐξηπατημένουσ ὑφ’ ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ μέχρι τούτου μνημονεύοντασ τὰσ ὑποσχέσεισ μέχρι ἂν ῥηθῶσιν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 111:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ οἱ δικασταὶ οὐ πρὸσ τὰσ τοῦ κατηγόρου ὑποσχέσεισ ἀποβλέποντεσ, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τὸ δίκαιον, ἔγνωσαν ἴδιον εἶναι τὸ μέταλλον, καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ ψήφῳ τάσ τε οὐσίασ αὐτῶν ἐν ἀσφαλείᾳ κατέστησαν, καὶ τὴν ὑπόλοιπον ἐργασίαν τοῦ μετάλλου ἐβεβαίωσαν. (Hyperides, Speeches, 36:1)

Synonyms

  1. a profession

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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