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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From προσδοκάω (prosdokáō, “I expect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /proz.do.kí.aː/ → /proz.ðoˈci.a/ → /proz.ðoˈci.a/
Noun
προσδοκῐ́ᾱ • (prosdokíā) f (genitive προσδοκῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- expectation
- Luke 21:26
- ἀποψυχόντων ἀνθρώπων ἀπὸ φόβου καὶ προσδοκίας τῶν ἐπερχομένων τῇ οἰκουμένῃ· αἱ γὰρ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν σαλευθήσονται.
Inflection
Further reading
- “προσδοκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “προσδοκία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- προσδοκία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G4329 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- προσδοκία in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.