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ἀλάομαι?

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: alaomai

Principal Part: ἀλάομαι

Structure: ἀλά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: ἄλη,

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

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἀλῶμαι ἀλᾷ ἀλᾶται
Dual ἀλᾶσθον ἀλᾶσθον
Plural ἀλώμεθα ἀλᾶσθε ἀλῶνται
SubjunctiveSingular ἀλῶμαι ἀλῇ ἀλῆται
Dual ἀλῆσθον ἀλῆσθον
Plural ἀλώμεθα ἀλῆσθε ἀλῶνται
OptativeSingular ἀλῴμην ἀλῷο ἀλῷτο
Dual ἀλῷσθον ἀλῴσθην
Plural ἀλῴμεθα ἀλῷσθε ἀλῷντο
ImperativeSingular ἀλῶ ἀλάσθω
Dual ἀλᾶσθον ἀλάσθων
Plural ἀλᾶσθε ἀλάσθων, ἀλάσθωσαν
Infinitive ἀλᾶσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἀλωμενος ἀλωμενου ἀλωμενη ἀλωμενης ἀλωμενον ἀλωμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠλώμην ἠλῶ ἠλᾶτο
Dual ἠλᾶσθον ἠλάσθην
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

  • ἴσμεν γὰρ οὐδὲν τρανές, ἀλλ ἀλώμεθα: (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:10)
  • πεπραμένοι γὰρ νῦν γέ πως ἀλώμεθα πρὸς τῆς τεκούσης, ἄνδρα δ ἀντηλλάξατο Αἴγισθον, ὅσπερ σοῦ φόνου μεταίτιος. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 3:20)
  • δείλαιοι, τί κεναῖσιν ἀλώμεθα θαρσήσαντες ἐλπίσιν, ἀτηροῦ ληθόμενοι θανάτου· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3761)

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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