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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

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠκριβολογοῦμην ἠκριβολόγου ἠκριβολόγειτο
Dual ἠκριβολόγεισθον ἠκριβολογεῖσθην
Plural ἠκριβολογοῦμεθα ἠκριβολόγεισθε ἠκριβολόγουντο

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

  • περὶ δὲ τούτου φιλοτιμότερον εἰπεῖν προήχθην, διότι Τίμαιοσ ὁ τῶν πρό γε αὐτοῦ συγγραφέων πικρότατα κατηγορήσασ καὶ συγγνώμην οὐδεμίαν τοῖσ ἱστοριογράφοισ ἀπολιπὼν αὐτὸσ εὑρίσκεται σχεδιάζων, ἐν οἷσ μάλιστα ἑαυτὸν ἀποπέφαγκεν ἀκριβολογούμενον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 90 7:1)

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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