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ἀποφθέγγομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποφθέγγομαι ἀποφθέγξομαι ἀπεφθεγξάμην

Structure: ἀπο (Prefix) + φθέγγ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. I speak my opinion plainly, boldly declare
  2. I utter an apophthegm

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • καὶ ἐβεβήλουν με πρὸσ τὸν λαόν μου ἕνεκεν δρακὸσ κριθῶν καὶ ἕνεκεν κλασμάτων ἄρτων τοῦ ἀποκτεῖναι ψυχάσ, ἃσ οὐκ ἔδει ἀποθανεῖν, καὶ τοῦ περιποιήσασθαι ψυχάσ, ἃσ οὐκ ἔδει ζῆσαι, ἐν τῷ ἀποφθέγγεσθαι ὑμᾶσ λαῷ εἰσακούοντι μάταια ἀποφθέγματα. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 13:19)
  • φέρε δὴ καθ’ ἕκαστον τοῖσ τῆσ τέχνησ εἴδεσιν ἐφαρμόζοντεσ τὴν παρασιτικήν, εἰ συνᾴδει σκοπῶμεν ἢ ὁ περὶ αὐτῆσ λόγοσ, καθάπερ αἱ πονηραὶ χύτραι διακρουόμεναι, σαθρὸν ἀποφθέγγεται δεῖ τοίνυν πᾶσαν τέχνην σύστημα ἐκ καταλήψεων . (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 4:5)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ αὐτὰ εἰπεῖν ἄμεινον, ἅπερ ἐκεῖνοι ἀπεφθέγγοντο· (Lucian, Zeuxis 2:3)
  • δοκοῦσι γὰρ ἀσκεῖν ἐκ παιδαρίων εὐθὺσ τὸ γέλοια λέγειν διὸ καὶ συμβέβηκεν αὐτοὺσ ἀποφθέγγεσθαι πολλάκισ εὐκαίρωσ διὰ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ συνήθειαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 79 2:5)
  • "πρῶτον μὲν γάρ, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, τὰ πλεῖστα κἀκεῖναι καταλογάδην ἀπεφθέγγοντο. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 233)
  • ὁ δὲ Παῦλοσ Οὐ μαίνομαι, φησίν, κράτιστε Φῆστε, ἀλλὰ ἀληθείασ καὶ σωφροσύνησ ῥήματα ἀποφθέγγομαι. (, chapter 19 279:1)

Synonyms

  1. I speak my opinion plainly

  2. I utter an apophthegm

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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