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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

  • Οἱ εἰθισμένοι τοὺς ξυνήθεας πόνους φέρειν, κἢν ὦσιν ἀσθενέες ἢ γέροντες, τῶν ἀξυνηθέων ἰσχυρῶν τε καὶ νέων ᾷον φέρουσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 54.49)

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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