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ἀκριβολογέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκριβολογέομαι

Structure: ἀκριβολογέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from a)kribolo/gos

Sense

  1. to be exact or precise, to weigh accurately

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἀκριβολόγουμαι ἀκριβολόγει, ἀκριβολόγῃ ἀκριβολόγειται
Dual ἀκριβολόγεισθον ἀκριβολόγεισθον
Plural ἀκριβολογοῦμεθα ἀκριβολόγεισθε ἀκριβολόγουνται
SubjunctiveSingular ἀκριβολόγωμαι ἀκριβολόγῃ ἀκριβολόγηται
Dual ἀκριβολόγησθον ἀκριβολόγησθον
Plural ἀκριβολογώμεθα ἀκριβολόγησθε ἀκριβολόγωνται
OptativeSingular ἀκριβολογοίμην ἀκριβολόγοιο ἀκριβολόγοιτο
Dual ἀκριβολόγοισθον ἀκριβολογοίσθην
Plural ἀκριβολογοίμεθα ἀκριβολόγοισθε ἀκριβολόγοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἀκριβολόγου ἀκριβολογεῖσθω
Dual ἀκριβολόγεισθον ἀκριβολογεῖσθων
Plural ἀκριβολόγεισθε ἀκριβολογεῖσθων, ἀκριβολογεῖσθωσαν
Infinitive ἀκριβολόγεισθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἀκριβολογουμενος ἀκριβολογουμενου ἀκριβολογουμενη ἀκριβολογουμενης ἀκριβολογουμενον ἀκριβολογουμενου

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

  • τὰ γὰρ παρὰ φύσιν οὐδὲν δεῖ ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι πότερα κατὰ φύσιν ἤ τινα ἄλλην αἰτίαν γίγνεται· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 10 13:2)
  • ἐπιστήμη μὲν οὖν τί ἐστιν, ἐντεῦθεν φανερόν, εἰ δεῖ ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι καὶ μὴ ἀκολουθεῖν ταῖσ ὁμοιότησιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 20:4)
  • περὶ ἑκάστου δὲ τούτων καθόλου μὲν εἴρηται καὶ νῦν, τὸ δὲ κατὰ μέροσ ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι χρήσιμον μὲν πρὸσ τὰσ ἐργασίασ, φορτικὸν δὲ τὸ ἐνδιατρίβειν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 150:3)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι περὶ τῶν μυθικῶν ἱστορημάτων καὶ μάλιστα τῶν εἰσ θεοὺσ ἀναφερομένων μακρῶν λόγων δεόμενον ὁρῶν ἐάσω, ἃ δέ μοι δοκοῦσιν ἀγαθὰ Ῥωμαῖοι λαβεῖν ἐκ τῆσ ἐκείνου τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἀρχῆσ, ὡσ ἐκ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἔμαθον ἱστοριῶν ἀφηγήσομαι, προειπὼν ἐν οἱαίσ ἐτύγχανε ταραχαῖσ τὰ πράγματα τῆσ πόλεωσ ὄντα, πρὶν ἐκεῖνον ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν παρελθεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 61 4:1)
  • ὅτι, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, αἱ ἀναγκαῖαι χρεῖαι τοὺσ τοῦ τί πρακτέον ἢ μὴ λογισμοὺσ ἀναιροῦσιν ἅπαντασ, ὥστ’ οὐ πάνυ ταῦτ’ ἀκριβολογεῖσθαι δεῖ τὸν δικαίωσ ἐξετάζοντα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 207:3)

Synonyms

  1. to be exact or precise

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

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