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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “to consider”) + -σῐς (-sis).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skép.sis/ → /ˈscep.sis/ → /ˈscep.sis/
Noun
σκέψῐς • (sképsis) f (genitive σκέψεως); third declension
- viewing, sensory perception, observation
- examination, speculation, consideration
- 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus, David Kovacs (ed.), lines 1320-1324.
σὺ δ᾽ ἔν τ᾽ ἐκείνῳ κἀν ἐμοὶ φαίνῃ κακός, / ὃς οὔτε πίστιν οὔτε μάντεων ὄπα / ἔμεινας, οὐκ ἤλεγξας, οὐ χρόνῳ μακρῷ / σκέψιν παρέσχες, ἀλλὰ θᾶσσον ἤ σ᾽ ἐχρῆν / ἀρὰς ἀφῆκας παιδὶ καὶ κατέκτανες.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (philosophy, chiefly Scepticism) doubt, hesitation
- (politics) resolution, decree
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