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ἀφέλκω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφέλκω

Structure: ἀπ (Prefix) + έ̔λκ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to drag away, to drag or tow, away, to draw aside
  2. to draw off, drink up
  3. to draw off for oneself

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἀφέλκω ἀφέλκεις ἀφέλκει
Dual ἀφέλκετον ἀφέλκετον
Plural ἀφέλκομεν ἀφέλκετε ἀφέλκουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἀφέλκω ἀφέλκῃς ἀφέλκῃ
Dual ἀφέλκητον ἀφέλκητον
Plural ἀφέλκωμεν ἀφέλκητε ἀφέλκωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἀφέλκοιμι ἀφέλκοις ἀφέλκοι
Dual ἀφέλκοιτον ἀφελκοίτην
Plural ἀφέλκοιμεν ἀφέλκοιτε ἀφέλκοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἀφέλκε ἀφελκέτω
Dual ἀφέλκετον ἀφελκέτων
Plural ἀφέλκετε ἀφελκόντων, ἀφελκέτωσαν
Infinitive ἀφέλκειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἀφελκων ἀφελκοντος ἀφελκουσα ἀφελκουσης ἀφελκον ἀφελκοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἀφέλκομαι ἀφέλκει, ἀφέλκῃ ἀφέλκεται
Dual ἀφέλκεσθον ἀφέλκεσθον
Plural ἀφελκόμεθα ἀφέλκεσθε ἀφέλκονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἀφέλκωμαι ἀφέλκῃ ἀφέλκηται
Dual ἀφέλκησθον ἀφέλκησθον
Plural ἀφελκώμεθα ἀφέλκησθε ἀφέλκωνται
OptativeSingular ἀφελκοίμην ἀφέλκοιο ἀφέλκοιτο
Dual ἀφέλκοισθον ἀφελκοίσθην
Plural ἀφελκοίμεθα ἀφέλκοισθε ἀφέλκοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἀφέλκου ἀφελκέσθω
Dual ἀφέλκεσθον ἀφελκέσθων
Plural ἀφέλκεσθε ἀφελκέσθων, ἀφελκέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἀφέλκεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἀφελκομενος ἀφελκομενου ἀφελκομενη ἀφελκομενης ἀφελκομενον ἀφελκομενου

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἀναβράττετ’ ἐξοπτᾶτε τρέπετ’ ἀφέλκετε τὰ λαγῷα ταχέωσ, τοὺσ στεφάνουσ ἀνείρετε. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene7)
  • ἀλλὰ ταῖσ ἄμαισ εἰσιόντεσ ὡσ τάχιστα τοὺσ λίθουσ ἀφέλκετε. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, trochees2)
  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ γενομένων ὁρ́κων καὶ τοῦ χρυσίου κομισθέντοσ, τῶν δὲ Κελτῶν περὶ τὸν σταθμὸν ἀγνωμονούντων κρύφα τὸ πρῶτον, εἶτα καὶ φανερῶσ ἀφελκόντων καὶ διαστρεφόντων τὴν ῥοπήν, ἠγανάκτουν οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι πρὸσ αὐτούσ. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 28 4:2)
  • "ἐπεὶ δ’ αὐτὰσ τὸ ἄστατον καὶ τὸ εὐπαθὲσ ἐξίστησι καὶ ἀφέλκει τῆσ σελήνησ πρὸσ ἄλλην γένεσιν, οὐκ ἐᾷ ἀλλ’ ἀνακαλεῖται καὶ καταθέλγει. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 3024)
  • ἐναντίασ γὰρ ὁρμὰσ ἔχων αὐτὸσ ἕκαστοσ αὑτῷ πράττει, ὥσθ’ ὅ τ’ ἐγκρατὴσ βίᾳ, φασίν, ἀφέλκει αὑτὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ἡδέων ἐπιθυμιῶν ἀλγεῖ γὰρ ἀφέλκων πρὸσ ἀντιτείνουσαν τὴν ὄρεξιν, ὅ τ’ ἀκρατὴσ βίᾳ παρὰ τὸν λογισμόν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 134:3)

Synonyms

  1. to drag away

  2. to draw off

  3. to draw off for oneself

Derived

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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