Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ξέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξέω

Structure: ξέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to smooth or polish by scraping, planing, filing

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

  • τὸν ἄνδρ’ ἀπηύδα Τεῦκροσ ἔνδοθεν στέγησ μὴ ’ξω παρήκειν, πρὶν παρὼν αὐτὸσ τύχῃ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode13)
  • "βαρεῖα μὲν κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι, βαρεῖα δ’, εἰ τέκνον δαί̈‐ ξω, δόμων ἄγαλμα, μιαίνων παρθενοσφάγοισιν ῥείθροισ πατρῴουσ χέρασ πέλασ βωμοῦ· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 4 1:2)
  • Μὴ ἔστωσαν δὴ αἱ ἐφεστηκυῖαι αἱ ΖΕ, ΒΛ, ΗΑ, ΘΚ, ΞΝ, ΔΟ, ΜΓ, ΡΠ πρὸσ ὀρθὰσ ταῖσ βάσεσιν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἤχθωσαν ἀπὸ τῶν Ζ, Η, Β, Κ, Ξ, Μ, Δ, Ρ σημείων ἐπὶ τὰ διὰ τῶν ΕΘ, ΝΠ ἐπίπεδα κάθετοι καὶ συμβαλλέτωσαν τοῖσ ἐπιπέδοισ κατὰ τὰ Σ, Τ, Υ, Φ, Χ, Ψ, Ω, #2, καὶ συμπεπληρώσθω τὰ ΖΦ, ΞΩ στερεά· (Euclid, Elements, book 11, type Prop659)

Synonyms

  1. to smooth or polish by scraping

Derived

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

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