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ἀλέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλέομαι

Structure: ἀλέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from same root as a)la/omai.

Sense

  1. to avoid, shun, to avoid
  2. to flee for one's life, flee

Examples

  • "τῆσ ξένησ ἤκουον ᾀδούσησ πρὸσ τὴν μύλην, ἐν Ἐρέσῳ γενόμενοσ, ἄλει μύλα ἄλει καὶ γὰρ Πιττακὸσ ἄλει μεγάλασ Μυτιλάνασ βασιλεύων. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 14 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. to avoid

  2. to flee for one's life

Derived

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

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