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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

  • καί, Ἄγε δή, ἔφην, ὦ Περίλαε, εἰ μὴ κενὴ ἄλλωσ ὑπόσχεσισ ταῦτά ἐστι, δεῖξον ἡμῖν αὐτὸσ εἰσελθὼν τὴν ἀλήθειαν τῆσ τέχνησ καὶ μίμησαι τοὺσ βοῶντασ, ἵν’ εἰδῶμεν εἰ καὶ ἃ φὴσ μέλη διὰ τῶν αὐλῶν φθέγγεται. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 12:1)
  • ἡ μὲν δὴ ὑπόσχεσισ οὕτω μεγάλη· (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 4:1)
  • τὰ δ̓ ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ πραχθησόμενα ὑπέσχετο ἤδη γράψειν καὶ τὸν περίπλουν τῆσ ἔξω θαλάττησ, καὶ οὐχ ὑπόσχεσισ ταῦτα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ προοίμιον τῆσ Ἰνδικῆσ ἤδη συντέτακται, καὶ τὸ τρίτον τάγμα καὶ οἱ Κελτοὶ καὶ Μαύρων μοῖρα ὀλίγη σὺν Κασσίῳ πάντεσ οὗτοι ἐπεραιώθησαν τὸν Ἰνδὸν ποταμόν· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 31 1:5)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν ὑπόσχεσισ οὕτω μεγάλη, τὸ δὲ πρᾶγμ’ ἤδη τὸν ἔλεγχον δώσει· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 18:3)
  • ἔχει γάρ τι καὶ τοιοῦτον ἡ τῶν παραδόξων καὶ θαυμαστῶν ὑπόσχεσισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 5 5:1)

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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