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ἀπολογέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπολογέομαι

Structure: ἀπολογέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: a)po/, lo/gos

Sense

  1. to speak in defence, defend oneself, about, in answer to.., to speak, behalf, the defendant
  2. to defend oneself against, explain, excuse
  3. to allege in one's defence
  4. to speak against

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

  • τὸ δὲ καὶ γελοῖον, εἴ σοι νῦν, ὦ Φίλων, ἀπολογοίμην, ὡσ οὐ Παρθυαίων οὐδὲ Μεσοποταμίτησ σοι ἐγώ, οἷ με φέρων ὁ θαυμαστὸσ συγγραφεὺσ ἀπῴκισε. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 24 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. to speak in defence

  2. to defend oneself against

  3. to allege in one's defence

  4. to speak against

Derived

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

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