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αἰνίσσομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: ainissomai

Principal Part: αἰνίσσομαι

Structure: αἰνίσς (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: αἶνος

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

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

  • 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

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

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