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ἄω?

Non-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄω

Structure: (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to sleep

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἦον ἦες ἦε(ν)
Dual ἤετον ἠέτην
Plural ἤομεν ἤετε ἦον
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠόμην ἤου ἤετο
Dual ἤεσθον ἠέσθην
Plural ἠόμεθα ἤεσθε ἤοντο

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

  • ἔνθα σφιν λαιψηρὸς ἀή νότος, ἱστία δ οὔρῳ στησάμενοι κούρης Ἀθαμαντίδος αἰπὰ ῥέεθρα εἰσέβαλον: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 16:22)
  • μῆνα δὲ πάντ ἄλληκτος ἀή Νότος, οὐδέ τις ἄλλος γίγνετ ἔπειτ ἀνέμων εἰ μὴ Εὖρός τε Νότος τε. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 36:2)
  • νὺξ δ ἄρ ἐπῆλθε κακὴ σκοτομήνιος, ὑε῀ δ ἄρα Ζεὺς πάννυχος, αὐτὰρ ἀή Ζέφυρος μέγας αἰὲν ἔφυδρος. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 39:1)
  • Εἰλήφθω γὰρ ἐπὶ τῆς ΒΔ τυχὸν σημεῖον τὸ Ζ, καὶ ἀφῃρήσθω ἀπὸ τῆς μείζονος τῆς ΑΕ τῇ ἐλάσσονι τῇ ΑΖ ἴση ἡ ΑΗ, καὶ ἐπεζεύχθωσαν αἱ ΖΓ, ΗΒ εὐθεῖαι. (Euclid, Elements, book 1, type Prop56)
  • Ἐπεὶ οὖν ἴση ἐστὶν ἡ μὲν ΑΖ τῇ ΑΗ ἡ δὲ ΑΒ τῇ ΑΓ, δύο δὴ αἱ ΖΑ, ΑΓ δυσὶ ταῖς ΗΑ, ΑΒ ἴσαι εἰσὶν ἑκατέρα ἑκατέρᾳ: (Euclid, Elements, book 1, type Prop57)

Synonyms

  1. to sleep

Derived

  • ἄω (to hurt)
  • ἄω? (to satiate, to take one's fill)

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

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