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διηγέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διηγέομαι διηγήσομαι

Structure: διηγέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to set out in detail, describe in full

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • λαόν μου, ὃν περιεποιησάμην τὰσ ἀρετάσ μου διηγεῖσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 43:21)
  • εἰσὶ δ’ οἳ καὶ μεταβαλέσθαι ^ φασιν αὐτὸν καί τινα ὀνείρατα διηγεῖσθαι, ὡσ τοῦ Διὸσ οὐκ ἐῶντοσ μιαίνειν ἱερὸν χωρίον. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:79)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ διηγεῖσθαι τὰ πράγματα, ὅπερ οἶμαι μέροσ πλείστησ δεῖται φροντίδοσ καὶ φυλακῆσ, ἀναμφιλόγωσ ἡγοῦμαι κράτιστον αὐτὸν εἶναι πάντων ῥητόρων, ὁρ́ον τε καὶ κανόνα τῆσ ἰδέασ ταύτησ αὐτὸν ἀποφαίνομαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 181)
  • ὁ δὲ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἀρξάμενοσ, ὦ ἑταῖρε, περὶ τούτων λέγειν καὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γνώμην διηγεῖσθαι τοσαύτην τινά μου λόγων ἀμβροσίαν κατεσκέδασεν, ὥστε καὶ τὰσ Σειρῆνασ ἐκείνασ, εἴ τινεσ ἄρα ἐγένοντο, καὶ τὰσ ἀηδόνασ καὶ τὸν Ὁμήρου λωτὸν ἀρχαῖον ἀποδεῖξαι· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 3:3)
  • ὃ καὶ θαυμάζω, ὅτι τὴν μὲν ἀποφράδα ἐδυσχέρανασ ἀκούσασ, ἐπ’ ἐκείνοισ δὲ τοῖσ ὀνόμασιν οὐκ ἠγανάκτεισ, ἐν Συρίᾳ μὲν Ῥοδοδάφνη κληθείσ, ἐφ’ ᾧ δέ, νὴ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, αἰσχύνομαι διηγεῖσθαι, ὥστε τό γε ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ ἀσαφὲσ ἔτι ἔστω· (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 23:4)

Derived

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

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