promise
promise
v. trans. or absol.
P. and V. ὑ̆πισχνεῖσθαι, ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι, ἐπῐνεύειν, V. ὑ̆πίσχεσθαι, σῠναινεῖν (also Xen.), αἰνεῖν, κᾰταινεῖν, P. κατεπαγγέλλεσθαι.
Absol., P. and V. ὑ̆φίστασθαι, P. ὑποδέχεσθαι, ἀναδέχεσθαι, V. ἐξαγγέλλεσθαι.
Pledge oneself: Ar. and P. ἐγγυᾶσθαι.
Promise to be, be likely to be: P. and V. μέλλειν (infin.).
Promise well: P. and V. εὖ προχωρεῖν.
v. trans. or absol.
P. and V. ὑ̆πισχνεῖσθαι, ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι, ἐπῐνεύειν, V. ὑ̆πίσχεσθαι, σῠναινεῖν (also Xen.), αἰνεῖν, κᾰταινεῖν, P. κατεπαγγέλλεσθαι.
Absol., P. and V. ὑ̆φίστασθαι, P. ὑποδέχεσθαι, ἀναδέχεσθαι, V. ἐξαγγέλλεσθαι.
Pledge oneself: Ar. and P. ἐγγυᾶσθαι.
Promise to be, be likely to be: P. and V. μέλλειν (infin.).
Promise well: P. and V. εὖ προχωρεῖν.
promise
subs.
P. and V. ὑ̆πόσχεσις, ἡ, P. ἐπάγγελμα, τό.
Assurance, pledge: P. and V. πίστῐς, ἡ, πιστόν, τό ; see pledge.
Hope, expectation: P. and V. ἐλπί̆ς, ἡ.
subs.
P. and V. ὑ̆πόσχεσις, ἡ, P. ἐπάγγελμα, τό.
Assurance, pledge: P. and V. πίστῐς, ἡ, πιστόν, τό ; see pledge.
Hope, expectation: P. and V. ἐλπί̆ς, ἡ.
PROMISE
s. promissio; pollicitatio (Vid: the verb): fides (one’s word given or pledged to a certain effect): promissum (that which one has promised a thing promised). To give a promise alicui promittere or polliceri (☞ not alicui promissum facere); with an accusative and infinitive. de aliqua re: he makes firm promises (ironically) satis scite tibi promittit (in comedy): to make many promises multa alicui polliceri: to keep or fulfil one’s promise promissum facere efficere praestare servare solvere exsolvere persolvere; promisso stare or satisfacere; quod promisi or pollicitus sum or quod promissum est servare observare or efficere; quod promissum est tenere; fidem servare praestare solvere or exsolvere: promises are not kept promissa ad irritum cadunt: to be bound by a promise promisso teneri.
s. promissio; pollicitatio (Vid: the verb): fides (one’s word given or pledged to a certain effect): promissum (that which one has promised a thing promised). To give a promise alicui promittere or polliceri (☞ not alicui promissum facere); with an accusative and infinitive. de aliqua re: he makes firm promises (ironically) satis scite tibi promittit (in comedy): to make many promises multa alicui polliceri: to keep or fulfil one’s promise promissum facere efficere praestare servare solvere exsolvere persolvere; promisso stare or satisfacere; quod promisi or pollicitus sum or quod promissum est servare observare or efficere; quod promissum est tenere; fidem servare praestare solvere or exsolvere: promises are not kept promissa ad irritum cadunt: to be bound by a promise promisso teneri.
v. To make a promise promittere (usually in answer to a request to engage one’s self to a performance of the thing required at some future time; alicui aliquid or de aliqua re): polliceri (for the most part spontaneously or of one’s own accord; also = not to refuse; alicui aliquid or de aliqua re: ☞ neque minus ei prolixe de tua voluntate promisi quam eram solitus de mea polliceri Cic. ad Fam. 7 5 1; promittere here denoting to give the actual expectation of a thing in prospect polliceri merely to manifest a willingness to do it if possible): pollicitari (with repeated assurances): appromittere (to take upon one’s self a promise already made by another in one’s name): in se recipere or simply recipere (to undertake to become responsible for): recipere et ultro polliceri; spondere despondere (formally so as to come under a legal obligation to fulfil one’s engagement): proponere (to propose or hold out as a reward; e.g. servis libertatem): pronunciare (publicly). “To promise that or to ” is expressed in Latin by an accusative and infinitive (usually a future infinitive rarely the present) after the verb of promising; e.g. I promise to do so or so promitto or polliceor me hoc facturum esse: to promise in marriage despondere (☞ not desponsare).
To give hope promittere; spem facere or dare alicujus rei. He promises well aliquis alios bene de se sperare jubet; alii de aliquo bene sperare possunt.
To give hope promittere; spem facere or dare alicujus rei. He promises well aliquis alios bene de se sperare jubet; alii de aliquo bene sperare possunt.
promise (subs.):
I. Words said:
1. prōmissum: to keep p.s, p. servare, Cic. Off. 3, 24, sqq.: also, promissum facere, ib. 1, 10, init.: to claim the fulfilment of a p., p. exigere, ib. 3, 25, 94: Hor. (Or use verb: to make a p., promittere: should he keep his p. or no? faciat quod promiserit, necne? Cic. Off. 3, 24, 93: to make many p s, multa promittere, etc.)
2. prōmissio (the act of promising): Cic. Fam. 4, 13, fin. (debebat esse aut promissio auxilii alicujus, aut consolatio doloris tui).
3. pollĭcĭtātio (strictly frequentative; hence usu. pl. denoting repeated offers): by large rewards and p.s, multis praemiis p.que, Caes. B. G. 3, 18: Sall.
4. often sufficiently definite, fĭdes, ĕi (word or honour as pledged): to break a p. made to an enemy (parole), fidem hosti datam fallere, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 39: so, f. violare, id. Rab. perd. 10, 28. (N.B.--In such phrr. as, to make this, that, one promise: to make many p.s, a substantive must not be used, but instead a neuter adj or pron.: hoc, illud, unum, multa promittere, polliceri: v.TO PROMISE .)
II. Prospect, likelihood: spes, ĕi: a young man of the highest p, adolescens summa spe [et animi et ingenii] praeditus, Cic. Ph. 2, 18, 46: adolescens non tam re et maturitate quam spe et expectatione laudatus. id. Or. 30, 107.
I. Words said:
1. prōmissum: to keep p.s, p. servare, Cic. Off. 3, 24, sqq.: also, promissum facere, ib. 1, 10, init.: to claim the fulfilment of a p., p. exigere, ib. 3, 25, 94: Hor. (Or use verb: to make a p., promittere: should he keep his p. or no? faciat quod promiserit, necne? Cic. Off. 3, 24, 93: to make many p s, multa promittere, etc.)
2. prōmissio (the act of promising): Cic. Fam. 4, 13, fin. (debebat esse aut promissio auxilii alicujus, aut consolatio doloris tui).
3. pollĭcĭtātio (strictly frequentative; hence usu. pl. denoting repeated offers): by large rewards and p.s, multis praemiis p.que, Caes. B. G. 3, 18: Sall.
4. often sufficiently definite, fĭdes, ĕi (word or honour as pledged): to break a p. made to an enemy (parole), fidem hosti datam fallere, Cic. Off. 1, 13, 39: so, f. violare, id. Rab. perd. 10, 28. (N.B.--In such phrr. as, to make this, that, one promise: to make many p.s, a substantive must not be used, but instead a neuter adj or pron.: hoc, illud, unum, multa promittere, polliceri: v.
II. Prospect, likelihood: spes, ĕi: a young man of the highest p, adolescens summa spe [et animi et ingenii] praeditus, Cic. Ph. 2, 18, 46: adolescens non tam re et maturitate quam spe et expectatione laudatus. id. Or. 30, 107.
promise (v.):
I. To make a promise:
1. prōmitto, mīsi, ssum, 3 (usu. denoting a formal engagement, esp. in reply to an offer or challenge): Cic.: Caes. Join: promittere ac recipere (promise and undertake), Cic. Fam. 5, 8; promittere, recipere, spondere, id. Ph. 5, 18, fin.
2. pollĭceor, 2 (to make a voluntary promise): the consul p.s the senate not to be wanting in his duty to the state, consul reipublicae se non defuturum p., Caes. B. C. 1, 1: to p. the most extravagant things, maria montesque p., Sall. Cat. 23: so, montes auri p., Ter. Ph. 1, 2, 18. Foll. by inf. alone: qui sum pollicitus ducere (usu. me ducturum), id. Andr. 3, 5, 7. Frequent. pollicitor, 1 (to p. repeatedly, make many promises): Ter.: Sall.
3. prōfĭteor, 2 (freely to offer; very like preced.): v.TO OFFER . Join: profiteri atque polliceri [suum studium], Cic. Fam. 5, 8, med. Phr.: to p. or threaten, spem, metum ostendere, id. Verr. 4, 34, 75.
II. To engage oneself in reply to an invitation: prōmitto, 3: Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 27 (pr. ad aliquem). (By no means, polliceor.)
III. To furnish hopes: Phr.: the crops p. well, *segetes largam (benignam) promittunt, ostendunt, sperare jubent messem (Kr.): a youth who p.s well, adolescens summa spe praeditus (v. preced. art. fin.): he p.s to be a good general, *spem facit (ostendit) omnibus summum se ducem futurum (fore ut dux summus evadat). (Kr. gives, promittit artificem musicum, he p.s to be a musician; but the phr. appears to be without authority.)
I. To make a promise:
1. prōmitto, mīsi, ssum, 3 (usu. denoting a formal engagement, esp. in reply to an offer or challenge): Cic.: Caes. Join: promittere ac recipere (promise and undertake), Cic. Fam. 5, 8; promittere, recipere, spondere, id. Ph. 5, 18, fin.
2. pollĭceor, 2 (to make a voluntary promise): the consul p.s the senate not to be wanting in his duty to the state, consul reipublicae se non defuturum p., Caes. B. C. 1, 1: to p. the most extravagant things, maria montesque p., Sall. Cat. 23: so, montes auri p., Ter. Ph. 1, 2, 18. Foll. by inf. alone: qui sum pollicitus ducere (usu. me ducturum), id. Andr. 3, 5, 7. Frequent. pollicitor, 1 (to p. repeatedly, make many promises): Ter.: Sall.
3. prōfĭteor, 2 (freely to offer; very like preced.): v.
II. To engage oneself in reply to an invitation: prōmitto, 3: Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 27 (pr. ad aliquem). (By no means, polliceor.)
III. To furnish hopes: Phr.: the crops p. well, *segetes largam (benignam) promittunt, ostendunt, sperare jubent messem (Kr.): a youth who p.s well, adolescens summa spe praeditus (v. preced. art. fin.): he p.s to be a good general, *spem facit (ostendit) omnibus summum se ducem futurum (fore ut dux summus evadat). (Kr. gives, promittit artificem musicum, he p.s to be a musician; but the phr. appears to be without authority.)
ὑπισχνέομαι
ὑπισχνέομαι, undertake (to do + compl. inf.); promise, profess (+ indirect discourse inf.)
ἐπαγγέλλω
to tell, proclaim; promise; denounce, summon
ὑφίστημι
to place under; mid. to submit, to promise
ἀπειλέω2
threaten; (Hom.) boast, promise
ὑπόσχεσις
an undertaking, engagement, promise
ἐγγυάω
ἐγγυάω, engage, promise (verb)
to promise
καταφατίζω
to protest, promise
κατεπαγγελία
promise
στεῦμαι
to make as if one would, to promise
συνημοσύνη
agreements, covenants, solemn promises
ἀνθυπισχνέομαι
promise in return
ἐπάγγελμα
a promise, profession
ἑδνόω
to promise for wedding-presents, to betroth
ὑπίσχομαι
take upon oneself, undertake, promise
ὑποδέχνυμαι
to receive, promise
ὕφεξις
promise
ὑπισχνέομαι, undertake (to do + compl. inf.); promise, profess (+ indirect discourse inf.)
ἐπαγγέλλω
to tell, proclaim; promise; denounce, summon
ὑφίστημι
to place under; mid. to submit, to promise
ἀπειλέω2
threaten; (Hom.) boast, promise
ὑπόσχεσις
an undertaking, engagement, promise
ἐγγυάω
ἐγγυάω, engage, promise (verb)
appearing fewer than 50 times
καθυπισχνέομαιto promise
καταφατίζω
to protest, promise
κατεπαγγελία
promise
στεῦμαι
to make as if one would, to promise
συνημοσύνη
agreements, covenants, solemn promises
ἀνθυπισχνέομαι
promise in return
ἐπάγγελμα
a promise, profession
ἑδνόω
to promise for wedding-presents, to betroth
ὑπίσχομαι
take upon oneself, undertake, promise
ὑποδέχνυμαι
to receive, promise
ὕφεξις
promise
promitto
to promise; to let go, put forth, let hang down, let grow
polliceor
to hold forth, offer, promise
despondeo
to promise to give, promise, pledge
sponsio
a solemn promise, engagement, covenant, guarantee, security
vadimonium
a promise of appearance secured by bail, bail-bond, bail, security, recognizance
promissio
a promising, promise
to agree, make an engagement, covenant, promise
pollicitatio
a promising, promise
pollicitor
to promise
pollicitum
a promise, pledge
promissum
a promise
repromitto
to promise in return
stipulatio
a formal promise, engagement, agreement, bargain, covenant, stipulation
to promise; to let go, put forth, let hang down, let grow
polliceor
to hold forth, offer, promise
despondeo
to promise to give, promise, pledge
sponsio
a solemn promise, engagement, covenant, guarantee, security
vadimonium
a promise of appearance secured by bail, bail-bond, bail, security, recognizance
promissio
a promising, promise
appearing fewer than 50 times
condicoto agree, make an engagement, covenant, promise
pollicitatio
a promising, promise
pollicitor
to promise
pollicitum
a promise, pledge
promissum
a promise
repromitto
to promise in return
stipulatio
a formal promise, engagement, agreement, bargain, covenant, stipulation