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ἀπομαραίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπομαραίνομαι

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

Sense

  1. to waste or wither away, die away

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

  • ἀμέλει πολλὰσ ἄν σοι δείξαιμι μορφῆσ μὲν εὖ ἡκούσασ, τὰ δ’ ἄλλα αἰσχυνούσασ τὸ κάλλοσ, ὡσ καὶ μόνον φθεγξαμένων ἀπανθεῖν αὐτὸ καὶ ἀπομαραίνεσθαι ἐλεγχόμενόν τε καὶ ἀσχημονοῦν καὶ παρ’ ἀξίαν συνὸν πονηρᾷ τινι δεσποίνῃ τῇ ψυχῇ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 11:7)
  • τὰσ γὰρ ἄλλασ τέχνασ εἰκόσ ἐστι πρὸσ ἐργασίαν ἢ δόξαν συνισταμένασ ἐν ταῖσ ἀδόξοισ καὶ ταπειναῖσ πόλεσιν ἀπομαραίνεσθαι, τὴν δ’ ἀρετὴν, ὥσπερ ἰσχυρὸν καὶ διαρκὲσ φυτὸν, ἐν ἅπαντι ῥιζοῦσθαι τόπῳ, φύσεώσ τε χρηστῆσ καὶ φιλοπόνου ψυχῆσ ἐπιλαμβανομένην. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 1 3:1)
  • ἀφυὴσ γὰρ ὢν πρὸσ εἰρήνην καὶ ἀπολίτευτοσ, ηὐξημένοσ δὲ τοῖσ πολέμοισ, εἶτα κατὰ μικρὸν αὖθισ ὐπὸ ἀργίασ καὶ ἡσυχίασ ἀπὸ ἀπομαραίνεσθαι τὴν δύναμιν αὐτόν καὶ τὴν δόξαν οἰόμενοσ, ἐζήτει καινῶν πραγμάτων ἀρχάσ, ἤλπιζε γὰρ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ συνταράξασ καὶ Μιθριδάτην ἐπίδοξον ὄντα πολεμήσειν ἀναστήσασ καὶ παροξύνασ, εὐθὺσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἡγεμὼν αἱρεθήσεσθαι καὶ νέων μὲν τὴν πόλιν θριάμβων, σκύλων δὲ Ποντικῶν καὶ πλούτου βασιλικοῦ τὸν οἶκον ἐμπλήσειν. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 31 2:1)
  • "ἀφεθεῖσαι γὰρ ὑπὸ τοῦ νοῦ καὶ πρὸσ οὐδὲν ἔτι χρώμεναι τοῖσ πάθεσιν ἀπομαραίνονται· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 3022)
  • δ’ ἅμα φρονήσει μετὰ δικαιοσύνησ καὶ σωφροσύνησ ἐγγιγνομένου, κατασβέννυται καὶ ἀπομαραίνεται; (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 28 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to waste or wither away

Derived

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

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