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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὑπισχνέομαι (hupiskhnéomai) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.pós.kʰe.sis/ → /yˈpos.çe.sis/ → /iˈpos.çe.sis/
Noun
ῠ̔πόσχεσῐς • (hupóskhesis) f (genitive ῠ̔ποσχέσεως); third declension
- promise, engagement
- profession, job
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ὑπόσχεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑπόσχεσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ὑπόσχεσις 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.
- assurance idem, page 48.
- contract idem, page 169.
- covenant idem, page 180.
- engagement idem, page 274.
- guarantee idem, page 376.
- offer idem, page 571.
- pledge idem, page 620.
- profession idem, page 653.
- promise idem, page 653.
- undertaking idem, page 914.
- vow idem, page 958.