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ἀλάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλάομαι

Structure: ἀλά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a)/lh,

Sense

  1. to wander, stray or roam about, to wander from home, be banished, to wander over
  2. to wander away from, cease to enjoy
  3. to wander in mind, be distraught

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠλώμην ἠλῶ ἠλᾶτο
Dual ἠλᾶσθον ἠλᾱ́σθην
Plural ἠλώμεθα ἠλᾶσθε ἠλῶντο

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

  • ἡ μὲν ἐξ ὅτου νέασ τροφῆσ ἔληξε καὶ κατίσχυσεν δέμασ, ἀεὶ μεθ’ ἡμῶν δύσμοροσ πλανωμένη γερονταγωγεῖ, πολλὰ μὲν κατ’ ἀγρίαν ὕλην ἄσιτοσ νηλίπουσ τ’ ἀλωμένη, πολλοῖσι δ’ ὄμβροισ ἡλίου τε καύμασιν μοχθοῦσα τλήμων δεύτερ’ ἡγεῖται τὰ τῆσ οἴκοι διαίτησ, εἰ πατὴρ τροφὴν ἔχοι. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀίδρισ ἠε͂ν ὁδῶν, θαμὰ καὶ πρὶν ἀλωμένη ἀμφί τε νεκρούσ, ἀμφί τε δυσπαλέασ ῥίζασ χθονόσ, οἱᾶ γυναῖκεσ φαρμακίδεσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 1:28)
  • οὐδ’ ἢν ἔνθ’ ἀφίκηαι ἀλωμένη, οὔ σευ ἔγωγε σκυζομένησ ἀλέγω, ἐπεὶ οὐ σέο κύντερον ἄλλο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 49:6)

Synonyms

  1. to wander

  2. to wander away from

  3. to wander in mind

Derived

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

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