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ἐφήδομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration: ephēdomai

Principal Part: ἐφήδομαι

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + ἥδ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to exult over

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐφήδομαι ἐφήδει, ἐφήδῃ ἐφήδεται
Dual ἐφήδεσθον ἐφήδεσθον
Plural ἐφηδόμεθα ἐφήδεσθε ἐφήδονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐφήδωμαι ἐφήδῃ ἐφήδηται
Dual ἐφήδησθον ἐφήδησθον
Plural ἐφηδώμεθα ἐφήδησθε ἐφήδωνται
OptativeSingular ἐφηδοίμην ἐφήδοιο ἐφήδοιτο
Dual ἐφήδοισθον ἐφηδοίσθην
Plural ἐφηδοίμεθα ἐφήδοισθε ἐφήδοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐφήδου ἐφηδέσθω
Dual ἐφήδεσθον ἐφηδέσθων
Plural ἐφήδεσθε ἐφηδέσθων, ἐφηδέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐφήδεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐφηδομενος ἐφηδομενου ἐφηδομενη ἐφηδομενης ἐφηδομενον ἐφηδομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐφηδόμην ἐφήδου ἐφήδετο
Dual ἐφήδεσθον ἐφηδέσθην
Plural ἐφηδόμεθα ἐφήδεσθε ἐφήδοντο

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

  • καὶ γὰρ αὖ κἀκεῖνο τοῖς πολλοῖς ἀνθρώποις ὁρῶ παρακολουθοῦν, τὸ λίαν ἐφήδεσθαι ὅταν τις ἀρξάμενος βλασφημεῖν ἕτερον αὐτὸς ἐλέγχηται περὶ τῶν αὐτῷ προσόντων κακῶν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 6:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο δὲ δρᾶσαι, τῷ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ὡς μὴ ἐφήδεσθαι δοκοίη τελευτήσαντι Ἡφαιστίωνι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 14 9:4)
  • τὸ γὰρ τὰ μὲν ὀδυνῶντα ὑμᾶς ἐξαιρεθῆναι, καὶ φθόνον καὶ φιλονικίαν καὶ τὴν ἐκ τούτων γιγνομένην στάσιν καὶ τὸ ἐπιβουλεύειν ἀλλήλοις ὑμᾶς καὶ τὸ τοῖς κακοῖς ἐφήδεσθαι τοῖς τῶν πλησίον καὶ τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἄχθεσθαι, τὰ δὲ ἐναντία ἀντὶ τούτων εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὰς πόλεις, κοινωνίαν ἀγαθῶν, ὁμοφροσύνην, ἐπὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀμφοτέρων χαράν, οὐχὶ ταῦτα πάντα ἑορτῇ ἐοίκε δημοσίᾳ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 80:1)
  • δεῖ δὲ τοὺς νοῦν ἔχοντας οὕτως χρῆσθαι τοῖς αὐτομάτοις ἀγαθοῖς ὥστε ὑπαρχόντων μὲν αὐτῶν μηδένα ἐγκαλεῖν, ἐὰν δὲ παύσηταί ποτε, μηδένα ἐφήδεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:3)
  • εἰ μὲν οὖν ἡττήθησαν ὑπὸ τοῦ Μενελάου μνηστεύοντες τὴν Ἑλένην, οὐκ ἂν ἐφρόντισαν, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ἐφήδεσθαι ἔμελλον αὐτῷ: (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 79:3)

Synonyms

  1. to exult over

Derived

Similar forms

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

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