δόξα
Alt. δόξα, ης, ἡ,
Gram. n doc h_hs fem
Etym. δοκέω
I. "a notion", true or false: and so,
1. "expectation", ἀπὸ δόξης otherwise than "one expects", Hom.; παρὰ δόξαν ἤ.. Hdt.; opp. to κατὰ δόξαν, Plat., etc.; ἀπὸ δόξης πεσέειν, Lat. spe excidere, Hdt.; δόξαν παρέχειν τινί to make one "expect" that, c. inf., Xen.
2. "an opinion, judgment", Pind., attic
3. like δόκησις, "a mere opinion, conjecture", Aesch., etc.; δόξῃ ἐπίστασθαι "to imagine, suppose" (but wrongly), Hdt.:—also, "a fancy, vision, dream", Aesch., Eur.
II. "the opinion which others have of one, estimation, reputation, credit, honour, glory", Lat. existimatio, Solon., Aesch., etc.; δόξαν φέρεσθαι, ἔχειν Thuc., etc.; τινός "for" a thing, Eur.:—rarely of "ill repute", Dem.
2. "the estimate popularly formed of a thing", id=Dem.
III. of external appearance, "glory, splendour, effulgence", NTest.