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εἰρωνεύομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: eirōneuomai

Principal Part: εἰρωνεύομαι

Structure: εἰρωνεύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from εἴρων

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 ηἴρωνευου ηἴρωνευετο
Dual ηἴρωνευεσθον ηἰρῶνευεσθην
Plural ηἰρῶνευομεθα ηἴρωνευεσθε ηἴρωνευοντο

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

  • ἔπειτ εἰρωνεύεσθε πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτούς, καὶ περὶ Ἀριστογείτονος μέλλοντες φέρειν τὴν ψῆφον ἐλεεῖτε, ὃς τὸν αὑτοῦ πατέρα κακῶς διατιθέμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ λιμοῦ οὐκ ἠλέησεν· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 14:1)
  • εἰρωνεύῃ ταῦτα πρὸς ἐμέ, τυμβωρύχε καὶ μιαρὲ καὶ κατάπτυστε καὶ μαστιγία καὶ κάθαρμα· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 52:5)
  • ἤκουσας αὐτῆς οἱο῀ν εἰρωνεύεται· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:26)
  • ἆρ οὐ φανερόν, ὅτι καλλιλογεῖτε καὶ εἰρωνεύεσθε, ὦ Μηνύκιε, ὄνομα καλὸν ἔργῳ περιθέντες ἀνοσίῳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 32 1:1)
  • εἰρωνεύῃ, ὦ Σώκρατες. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 260:1)

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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