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εἰρωνεύομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰρωνεύομαι

Structure: εἰρωνεύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from ei)/rwn

Sense

  1. to dissemble, feign ignorance, to dissemble, shuffle

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular εἰρωνεύομαι εἰρωνεύει, εἰρωνεύῃ εἰρωνεύεται
Dual εἰρωνεύεσθον εἰρωνεύεσθον
Plural εἰρωνευόμεθα εἰρωνεύεσθε εἰρωνεύονται
SubjunctiveSingular εἰρωνεύωμαι εἰρωνεύῃ εἰρωνεύηται
Dual εἰρωνεύησθον εἰρωνεύησθον
Plural εἰρωνευώμεθα εἰρωνεύησθε εἰρωνεύωνται
OptativeSingular εἰρωνευοίμην εἰρωνεύοιο εἰρωνεύοιτο
Dual εἰρωνεύοισθον εἰρωνευοίσθην
Plural εἰρωνευοίμεθα εἰρωνεύοισθε εἰρωνεύοιντο
ImperativeSingular εἰρωνεύου εἰρωνευέσθω
Dual εἰρωνεύεσθον εἰρωνευέσθων
Plural εἰρωνεύεσθε εἰρωνευέσθων, εἰρωνευέσθωσαν
Infinitive εἰρωνεύεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
εἰρωνευομενος εἰρωνευομενου εἰρωνευομενη εἰρωνευομενης εἰρωνευομενον εἰρωνευομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ηἰρῶνευομην ηί̓ρωνευου ηί̓ρωνευετο
Dual ηί̓ρωνευεσθον ηἰρῶνευεσθην
Plural ηἰρῶνευομεθα ηί̓ρωνευεσθε ηί̓ρωνευοντο

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

  • ἐμοὶ δὲ ἀπαρτισθείσησ τῆσ ἱστορίασ ἀληθείᾳ οὐ κολακεύων, οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐπέβαλλεν αὐτῷ, οὐδὲ εἰρωνευόμενοσ, ὡσ σὺ φήσεισ, πόρρω γὰρ ἦν ἐκεῖνοσ τοιαύτησ κακοηθείασ, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐμαρτύρει, καθάπερ πάντεσ οἱ ταῖσ ἱστορίαισ ἐντυγχάνοντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, 432:1)
  • εἰρωνευόμενοσ καὶ παριστὰσ ὅτι πάντα παρὰ τοῖσ Ἀθηναίοισ καλὰ νομίζεται, αἰσχρὸν δὲ οὐδέν. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 65 2:1)
  • ὡσ ἐν Θεαιτήτῳ λέγεται Οὐ γὰρ εἰρωνευόμενὸσ γε καὶ παίζων προσεχρήσατο ἂν τῷ τοῦ θεοῦ ὀνόματι. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 1, section 1 2:1)
  • αἰτοῦντοσ, εἰρωνευόμενοσ ὁ Κάτων ἔφη δοτέον εἶναι συγγνώμην, εἰ τῶν Ἀμφικτυόνων ψηφισαμένων ἀναγκασθεὶσ ἔγραψεν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 29 1:1)
  • Γοργίασ μὲν οὖν ὁ Λεοντῖνοσ, τὰ μὲν ἴσωσ ἀπορῶν τὰ δ’ εἰρωνευόμενοσ, ἔφη, καθάπερ ὅλμουσ εἶναι τοὺσ ὑπὸ τῶν ὁλμοποιῶν πεποιημένουσ, οὕτω καὶ Λαρισαίουσ τοὺσ ὑπὸ τῶν δημιουργῶν πεποιημένουσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 23:2)

Synonyms

  1. to dissemble

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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