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ἀπάρχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: aparchomai

Principal Part: ἀπάρχομαι

Structure: ἀπ (Prefix) + ἄρχ (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

  • οἱ μὲν νεηνίαι τῶν γενείων ἀπάρχονται, τοῖς δὲ νέοισι πλοκάμους ἱροὺς ἐκ γενετῆς ἀπιᾶσιν, τοὺς ἐπεὰν ἐν τῷ ἱρῷ γένωνται, τάμνουσίν τε καὶ ἐς ἄγγεα καταθέντες οἱ μὲν ἀργύρεα, πολλοὶ δὲ χρύσεα ἐν τῷ νηῷ προσηλώσαντες ἀπίασιν ἐπιγράψαντες ἕκαστοι τὰ οὐνόματα. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 60:6)
  • ἐς γὰρ ὀλβίαν ξείνοισί με πότνια Νίκα νᾶσον Αἰγίνας ἀπάρχει ἐλθόντα κοσμῆσαι θεόδματον πόλιν: (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 12 1:2)
  • "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)

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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