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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῠ̔ποτῐ́θημῐ (hupotíthēmi, “I place under, set before, suggest”) + -σῐς (-sis), from ῠ̔πο- (hupo-, “below”) + τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “to put, place”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.pó.tʰe.sis/ → /yˈpo.θe.sis/ → /iˈpo.θe.sis/
Noun
ῠ̔πόθεσῐς • (hupóthesis) f (genitive ῠ̔ποθέσεως); third declension
- proposal, proposed action; policy, intention
- suggestion, advice
- purpose
- occasion, excuse, pretext
- actor's role
- function, occupation, station
- subject proposed for discussion
- lawsuit, legal case
- subject, topic
- speech
- play, pantomime
- supposition, assumption, hypothesis
- presupposition
- premise
- starting point
- raw material
- mortgage
- placing under
- base (thing placed under another)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ὑπόθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑπόθεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὑπόθεσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- assumption idem, page 48.
- basis idem, page 64.
- ground idem, page 375.
- hypothesis idem, page 412.
- matter idem, page 518.
- principle idem, page 641.
- subject idem, page 830.
- substance idem, page 832.
- supposition idem, page 842.
- text idem, page 863.
- view idem, page 951.