Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀπάρχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπάρχομαι

Structure: ἀπ (Prefix) + ά̓ρχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to make a beginning, to begin the sacrifice with, by cutting off, to begin, sacrificial
  2. to cut off part, to offer, to offer part of
  3. to offer the firstlings or first-fruits
  4. to take as the first-fruits, as, choice or best
  5. to be the first, be leader, dance

Conjugation

Present tense

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

  • "ὁ τύραννοσ οὐδὲ σιτίοισ καὶ ποτοῖσ πιστεύων διάγει, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπάρχεσθαι θεοῖσ τοῖσ διακονοῦσι πρῶτον κελεύουσιν ἀπογεύεσθαι διὰ τὸ ἀπιστεῖν μὴ καὶ ἐν τούτοισ κακόν τι φάγωσιν ἢ πίωσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 71 4:1)
  • "πολλοῦ δὲ δέομεν ἄνθρωποι τὴν σελήνην, γῆν οὖσαν ὀλυμπίαν, ἄψυχον ἡγεῖσθαι σῶμα καὶ ἄνουν καὶ ἄμοιρον ὧν θεοῖσ ἀπάρχεσθαι προσήκει, νόμῳ τε τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀμοιβὰσ τίνοντασ καὶ κατὰ φύσιν σεβομένουσ τὸ κρεῖττον ἀρετῇ καὶ δυνάμει καὶ τιμιώτερον. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 21 5:28)
  • ἔθουσ δὲ ὄντοσ ἔτι τότε τοὺσ μεταβαίνοντασ ἐκ παίδων ἐλθόντασ εἰσ Δελφοὺσ ἀπάρχεσθαι τῷ θεῷ τῆσ κόμησ, ἦλθε μὲν εἰσ Δελφοὺσ ὁ Θησεύσ, καὶ τόπον ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ τὴν Θησείαν ἔτι νῦν ὀνομάζεσθαι λέγουσιν, ἐκείρατο δὲ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τὰ πρόσθεν μόνον, ὥσπερ Ὅμηροσ ἔφη τοὺσ Ἄβαντασ· (Plutarch, chapter 5 1:1)
  • καὶ [ὁ] συσσιτῶν ἀριθμεῖν τὰσ κύλικασ, πόσασ ἕκαστοσ πέπωκε, καὶ ἀπάρχεσθαι ἐλάχιστον τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι τῶν συνδειπνούντων. (Theophrastus, Characters, 3:1)
  • ὁπότε γε οὐδὲ σιτίοισ καὶ ποτοῖσ πιστεύων διάγει, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων πρὶν ἀπάρχεσθαι τοῖσ θεοῖσ τοὺσ διακόνουσ πρῶτον κελεύουσιν ἀπογεύεσθαι διὰ τὸ ἀπιστεῖν μὴ καὶ ἐν τούτοισ κακόν τι φάγωσιν ἢ πίωσιν· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. to make a beginning

    • κατάρχω (to begin the sacrificial ceremonies, began [the sacrifice] with, I begin the function)

Derived

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

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