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ἁγνεύω

Non-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁγνεύω

Structure: ἁγνεύ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: a(gno/s

Sense

  1. to consider as part of purity, make it a point of religion, to be pure, is clean, to keep oneself pure from

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἁγνεύω ἁγνεύεις ἁγνεύει
Dual ἁγνεύετον ἁγνεύετον
Plural ἁγνεύομεν ἁγνεύετε ἁγνεύουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἁγνεύω ἁγνεύῃς ἁγνεύῃ
Dual ἁγνεύητον ἁγνεύητον
Plural ἁγνεύωμεν ἁγνεύητε ἁγνεύωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἁγνεύοιμι ἁγνεύοις ἁγνεύοι
Dual ἁγνεύοιτον ἁγνευοίτην
Plural ἁγνεύοιμεν ἁγνεύοιτε ἁγνεύοιεν
ImperativeSingular ά̔γνευε ἁγνευέτω
Dual ἁγνεύετον ἁγνευέτων
Plural ἁγνεύετε ἁγνευόντων, ἁγνευέτωσαν
Infinitive ἁγνεύειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἁγνευων ἁγνευοντος ἁγνευουσα ἁγνευουσης ἁγνευον ἁγνευοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἁγνεύομαι ἁγνεύει, ἁγνεύῃ ἁγνεύεται
Dual ἁγνεύεσθον ἁγνεύεσθον
Plural ἁγνευόμεθα ἁγνεύεσθε ἁγνεύονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἁγνεύωμαι ἁγνεύῃ ἁγνεύηται
Dual ἁγνεύησθον ἁγνεύησθον
Plural ἁγνευώμεθα ἁγνεύησθε ἁγνεύωνται
OptativeSingular ἁγνευοίμην ἁγνεύοιο ἁγνεύοιτο
Dual ἁγνεύοισθον ἁγνευοίσθην
Plural ἁγνευοίμεθα ἁγνεύοισθε ἁγνεύοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἁγνεύου ἁγνευέσθω
Dual ἁγνεύεσθον ἁγνευέσθων
Plural ἁγνεύεσθε ἁγνευέσθων, ἁγνευέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἁγνεύεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἁγνευομενος ἁγνευομενου ἁγνευομενη ἁγνευομενης ἁγνευομενον ἁγνευομενου

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

  • δέχ’ ἡλίουσ, ἐν οἷσιν ἁγνεύει λεχώ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 2:10)
  • ἐκποδὼν δ’ αὐδῶ πολίταισ τοῦδ’ ἔχειν μιάσματοσ, εἴ τισ ἢ ναῶν πυλωρὸσ χεῖρασ ἁγνεύει θεοῖσ ἢ γάμον στείχει συνάψων ἢ τόκοισ βαρύνεται, φεύγετ’, ἐξίστασθε, μή τῳ προσπέσῃ μύσοσ τόδε. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, trochees36)
  • ἁγνεύεισ ἔτι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 86 3:8)
  • ἔστι δὲ πρόσφορον οὔτ’ ἁγνεύουσιν οὔθ’ ἑορτάζουσι, τοῖσ μὲν ὅτι διψῆν, τοῖσ δ’ ὅτι δακρύειν ποιεῖ τοὺσ προσφερομένουσ. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 8 3:2)
  • καίτοι κατ’ Αἰσχύλον ὄρνιθοσ ὄρνισ πῶσ ἂν ἁγνεύοι φαγών; (Plutarch, chapter 9 6:3)

Related

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

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