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ἐλασσόω

ο-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλασσόω

Structure: ἐλασσό (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to make less or smaller, to lessen, diminish, lower, to detract from
  2. to become smaller, be lessened, suffer loss, be depreciated, to take less than one's due, waive one's rights or privileges
  3. to have the worst of it, to be inferior
  4. to be at disadvantage

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλάσσω ἐλάσσοις ἐλάσσοι
Dual ἐλάσσουτον ἐλάσσουτον
Plural ἐλάσσουμεν ἐλάσσουτε ἐλάσσουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐλάσσω ἐλάσσοις ἐλάσσοι
Dual ἐλάσσωτον ἐλάσσωτον
Plural ἐλάσσωμεν ἐλάσσωτε ἐλάσσωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐλάσσοιμι ἐλάσσοις ἐλάσσοι
Dual ἐλάσσοιτον ἐλασσοίτην
Plural ἐλάσσοιμεν ἐλάσσοιτε ἐλάσσοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐλᾶσσου ἐλασσοῦτω
Dual ἐλάσσουτον ἐλασσοῦτων
Plural ἐλάσσουτε ἐλασσοῦντων, ἐλασσοῦτωσαν
Infinitive ἐλάσσουν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐλασσων ἐλασσουντος ἐλασσουσα ἐλασσουσης ἐλασσουν ἐλασσουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλάσσουμαι ἐλάσσοι ἐλάσσουται
Dual ἐλάσσουσθον ἐλάσσουσθον
Plural ἐλασσοῦμεθα ἐλάσσουσθε ἐλάσσουνται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐλάσσωμαι ἐλάσσοι ἐλάσσωται
Dual ἐλάσσωσθον ἐλάσσωσθον
Plural ἐλασσώμεθα ἐλάσσωσθε ἐλάσσωνται
OptativeSingular ἐλασσοίμην ἐλάσσοιο ἐλάσσοιτο
Dual ἐλάσσοισθον ἐλασσοίσθην
Plural ἐλασσοίμεθα ἐλάσσοισθε ἐλάσσοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐλάσσου ἐλασσοῦσθω
Dual ἐλάσσουσθον ἐλασσοῦσθων
Plural ἐλάσσουσθε ἐλασσοῦσθων, ἐλασσοῦσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐλάσσουσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐλασσουμενος ἐλασσουμενου ἐλασσουμενη ἐλασσουμενης ἐλασσουμενον ἐλασσουμενου

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

  • Καὶ ἀνεπαύσατο Σαλωμὼν μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ κατέλιπε μετ̓ αὐτὸν ἐκ τοῦ σπέρματοσ αὐτοῦ λαοῦ ἀφροσύνην καὶ ἐλασσούμενον συνέσει, Ροβοάμ, ὃσ ἀπέστησε λαὸν ἐκ βουλῆσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ Ἱεροβοὰμ υἱὸν Ναβάτ, ὃσ ἐξήμαρτε τὸν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἔδωκε τῷ Ἐφραὶμ ὁδὸν ἁμαρτίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 47:23)
  • ταῦτα διέκαιε καὶ παρώξυνε τὸν Κράσσον οὐκ ἀλόγωσ ἐλασσούμενον. (Plutarch, chapter 6 5:1)
  • ἐγὼ σέ, φησίν, ὦ Φαβρίκιε, πυνθάνομαι κράτιστον ἐν ἡγεμονίαισ πολέμων εἶναι κἀν τῷ βίῳ δίκαιον καὶ σώφρονα καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ ἁπάσασ ἔχοντα ἀρετάσ, χρημάτων δ’ ἄπορον καὶ καθ’ ἓν τὸ μέροσ τοῦτο ἐλασσούμενον ὑπὸ τῆσ τύχησ, ὥστε μηδὲν ἄμεινον τῶν πενεστάτων βουλευτῶν ἐν τοῖσ κατὰ τὸν βίον διατελεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 14 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. to make less or smaller

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

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