Ancient Greek

Noun

ὑπόθεσις • ‎(hupóthesis) f ‎(genitive ὑποθέσεως); third declension

1. proposal
2. suggestion, advice
3. purpose
4. occasion, excuse, pretext
5. actor's role
6. function, occupation, station
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   1. subject proposed for discussion
   2. lawsuit, legal case
   3. subject, topic
   4. speech
   5. play, pantomime
8. supposition, assumption, hypothesis
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   1. presupposition
   2. premise
   3. starting point
   4. raw material
   5. mortgage
10. placing under
    1. base (thing placed under another)

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: υπόθεση f ‎(ypóthesi)
• Latin: hypothesis
• Russian: гипо́теза f ‎(gipóteza)

References

• 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 864.
  • view idem, page 951.