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αἰνίσσομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰνίσσομαι

Structure: αἰνίσς (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: ai)=nos

Sense

  1. to speak in riddles, I will speak in riddles, to speak riddling, to hint, intimate, shadow forth
  2. to be wrapt up in riddles

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular αἰνίσσομαι αἰνίσσει, αἰνίσσῃ αἰνίσσεται
Dual αἰνίσσεσθον αἰνίσσεσθον
Plural αἰνισσόμεθα αἰνίσσεσθε αἰνίσσονται
SubjunctiveSingular αἰνίσσωμαι αἰνίσσῃ αἰνίσσηται
Dual αἰνίσσησθον αἰνίσσησθον
Plural αἰνισσώμεθα αἰνίσσησθε αἰνίσσωνται
OptativeSingular αἰνισσοίμην αἰνίσσοιο αἰνίσσοιτο
Dual αἰνίσσοισθον αἰνισσοίσθην
Plural αἰνισσοίμεθα αἰνίσσοισθε αἰνίσσοιντο
ImperativeSingular αἰνίσσου αἰνισσέσθω
Dual αἰνίσσεσθον αἰνισσέσθων
Plural αἰνίσσεσθε αἰνισσέσθων, αἰνισσέσθωσαν
Infinitive αἰνίσσεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
αἰνισσομενος αἰνισσομενου αἰνισσομενη αἰνισσομενης αἰνισσομενον αἰνισσομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ᾐνισσόμην ᾐνίσσου ᾐνίσσετο
Dual ᾐνίσσεσθον ᾐνισσέσθην
Plural ᾐνισσόμεθα ᾐνίσσεσθε ᾐνίσσοντο

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

  • δοκέω μέν, ἐσ Κλέωνα τοῦτ’ αἰνίσσεται, ὡσ κεῖνοσ ἀναιδέωσ τὴν σπατίλην ἐσθίει. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue 1:36)
  • τί ποτε λόγοισιν ἡ ξένη πρὸσ τὸν θεὸν κρυπτοῖσιν αἰεὶ λοιδοροῦσ’ αἰνίσσεται; (Euripides, Ion, episode 5:21)
  • ἅπαντα γὰρ αἰνίσσομαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. ia'. FEREKUDHS 7:10)
  • ἐν τῇ προτέρῃ νυκτὶ τῶν Παναθηναίων ἐδόκεε ὁ Ἵππαρχοσ ἄνδρα οἱ ἐπιστάντα μέγαν καὶ εὐειδέα αἰνίσσεσθαι τάδε τὰ ἔπεα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 56 2:2)
  • αἰνίσσεσθαι οὖν ἐθέλουσι τὰ ἔπη Ποσειδῶνα Ἀρείονι εἶναι πατέρα, Ἀντίμαχοσ δὲ παῖδα εἶναι Γῆσ φησιν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 11:3)

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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