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ἀπολιθόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπολιθόομαι

Structure: ἀπολιθό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: li/qos

Sense

  1. to become stone

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

  • "φησὶ δὲ καὶ ὅτι ἐν τῇ περὶ Ἡρακλέουσ στήλασ θαλάσσῃ ὅταν ὕδατα πλείω γένηται, μύκητεσ φύονται πρὸσ τῇ θαλάσσῃ, οὓσ καὶ ἀπολιθοῦσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου φησί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52102)
  • διήκουσι δ’ οἱ Πίκεντεσ μέχρι τοῦ Σιλάριδοσ ποταμοῦ τοῦ ὁρίζοντοσ ἀπὸ ταύτησ τῆσ χώρασ τὴν ἀρχαίαν Ἰταλίαν, ἐφ’ οὗ τοῦτ’ ἴδιον ἱστοροῦσιν περὶ τοῦ ὕδατοσ ὄντοσ ποτίμου, τὸ καθιέμενον εἰσ αὐτὸ φυτὸν ἀπολιθοῦσθαι φυλάττον τὴν χρόαν καὶ τὴν μορφήν. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 26:9)

Synonyms

  1. to become stone

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

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