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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

  • μήτηρ δυοῖν προκειμένων, εὐσεβείασ καὶ τῆσ τῶν ἑπτὰ υἱῶν σωτηρίασ προσκαίρου κατὰ τὴν τοῦ τυράννου ὑπόσχεσιν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:2)
  • καὶ μὰ Δί̓ οὐδ̓ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἀνιᾶσθαί μοι ἄξιον, ὅτι μηδὲ ἄλλῳ ἐγὼ γοῦν ἐντετύχηκα τὴν τοῦ σοφοῦ ὑπόσχεσιν ἀποπληροῦντι. (Lucian, Apologia 34:2)
  • ὑποσχόμεναι τὸ μὲν ἔδοσαν, ἐξ ἡμισείασ δὲ ἀνεκαλέσαντο τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν, λέγω δὲ τὴν τῶν μελλόντων γνῶσιν, καὶ ταῦτα προτέραν αὐτὴν ἐν τῷ ἔπει ὑπεσχημέναι. (Lucian, 4:1)
  • ἐγέλασα οὖν οὐκ ἐπιτελέσαντοσ τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 6:10)
  • ἐν δὴ τούτοισ καὶ Ἱππίου τουτουὶ τοῦ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ μεμνῆσθαι ἄξιον, ἀνδρὸσ λόγοισ μὲν παρ’ ὅντινα βούλει τῶν πρὸ αὐτοῦ γεγυμνασμένου καὶ συνεῖναί τε ὀξέοσ καὶ ἑρμηνεῦσαι σαφεστάτου, τὰ δὲ ἔργα πολὺ τῶν λόγων ἀμείνω παρεχομένου καὶ τὴν τῆσ τέχνησ ὑπόσχεσιν ἀποπληροῦντοσ, οὐκ ἐν τοιαύταισ μὲν ὑποθέσεσιν ἐν αἷσ οἱ πρὸ αὐτοῦ πρῶτοι γενέσθαι εὐτύχησαν, κατὰ δὲ τὸν γεωμετρικὸν λόγον ἐπὶ τῆσ δοθείσησ, φασίν, εὐθείασ τὸ τρίγωνον ἀκριβῶσ συνισταμένου. (Lucian, (no name) 3:2)

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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