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ἀπολογέομαι?

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: apologeomai

Principal Part: ἀπολογέομαι

Structure: ἀπολογέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: ἀπό, λόγος

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

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἀπολόγουμαι ἀπολόγει, ἀπολόγῃ ἀπολόγειται
Dual ἀπολόγεισθον ἀπολόγεισθον
Plural ἀπολογοῦμεθα ἀπολόγεισθε ἀπολόγουνται
SubjunctiveSingular ἀπολόγωμαι ἀπολόγῃ ἀπολόγηται
Dual ἀπολόγησθον ἀπολόγησθον
Plural ἀπολογώμεθα ἀπολόγησθε ἀπολόγωνται
OptativeSingular ἀπολογοίμην ἀπολόγοιο ἀπολόγοιτο
Dual ἀπολόγοισθον ἀπολογοίσθην
Plural ἀπολογοίμεθα ἀπολόγοισθε ἀπολόγοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἀπολόγου ἀπολογεῖσθω
Dual ἀπολόγεισθον ἀπολογεῖσθων
Plural ἀπολόγεισθε ἀπολογεῖσθων, ἀπολογεῖσθωσαν
Infinitive ἀπολόγεισθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἀπολογουμενος ἀπολογουμενου ἀπολογουμενη ἀπολογουμενης ἀπολογουμενον ἀπολογουμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠπολογοῦμην ἠπολόγου ἠπολόγειτο
Dual ἠπολόγεισθον ἠπολογεῖσθην
Plural ἠπολογοῦμεθα ἠπολόγεισθε ἠπολόγουντο

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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