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ἐλέγχω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλέγχω

Structure: ἐλέγχ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to disgrace, put to shame, to treat, with contempt, to put, to shame
  2. to cross-examine, question, disproving or reproving, to censure, accuse, to accuse, to be convicted
  3. to bring to the proof, to disprove, confute, to bring convincing proof, to prove

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλέγχω ἐλέγχεις ἐλέγχει
Dual ἐλέγχετον ἐλέγχετον
Plural ἐλέγχομεν ἐλέγχετε ἐλέγχουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐλέγχω ἐλέγχῃς ἐλέγχῃ
Dual ἐλέγχητον ἐλέγχητον
Plural ἐλέγχωμεν ἐλέγχητε ἐλέγχωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐλέγχοιμι ἐλέγχοις ἐλέγχοι
Dual ἐλέγχοιτον ἐλεγχοίτην
Plural ἐλέγχοιμεν ἐλέγχοιτε ἐλέγχοιεν
ImperativeSingular έ̓λεγχε ἐλεγχέτω
Dual ἐλέγχετον ἐλεγχέτων
Plural ἐλέγχετε ἐλεγχόντων, ἐλεγχέτωσαν
Infinitive ἐλέγχειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐλεγχων ἐλεγχοντος ἐλεγχουσα ἐλεγχουσης ἐλεγχον ἐλεγχοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλέγχομαι ἐλέγχει, ἐλέγχῃ ἐλέγχεται
Dual ἐλέγχεσθον ἐλέγχεσθον
Plural ἐλεγχόμεθα ἐλέγχεσθε ἐλέγχονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐλέγχωμαι ἐλέγχῃ ἐλέγχηται
Dual ἐλέγχησθον ἐλέγχησθον
Plural ἐλεγχώμεθα ἐλέγχησθε ἐλέγχωνται
OptativeSingular ἐλεγχοίμην ἐλέγχοιο ἐλέγχοιτο
Dual ἐλέγχοισθον ἐλεγχοίσθην
Plural ἐλεγχοίμεθα ἐλέγχοισθε ἐλέγχοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐλέγχου ἐλεγχέσθω
Dual ἐλέγχεσθον ἐλεγχέσθων
Plural ἐλέγχεσθε ἐλεγχέσθων, ἐλεγχέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐλέγχεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐλεγχομενος ἐλεγχομενου ἐλεγχομενη ἐλεγχομενης ἐλεγχομενον ἐλεγχομενου

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

  • τὸ γὰρ ἐλέγχεσθαι καὶ τοῖσ εἰδόσι καὶ μεμνημένοισ τῶν πάλαι ἐκείνων συνεῖναι βρόχοσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἔστι σοι. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 16:6)
  • ὥστε τῷ μὲν τὰ πταίσματα τῆσ πατρίδοσ μαρτυρεῖν ὅτι καλῶσ ἔγνω, τὸν δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν κατορθωμάτων ἐλέγχεσθαι τοῦ παντὸσ ἐσφαλμένον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus, chapter 2 4:1)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἀλαζὼν ἦν καὶ ἐλεγκτικὸσ καὶ πείθεσθαι οὐκ ἤθελεν οὐδὲ παρεῖχε ῥᾴδιον αὑτὸν ἐλέγχεσθαι, ὁ διδάσκαλόσ σου ὁ βέλτιστοσ ὃν εἶχε σκύφον Νεστόρειόν τινα καταφέρει αὐτοῦ πλησίον κατακειμένου, καὶ οὕτωσ ἐκράτησεν. (Lucian, 25:5)
  • "διαφορὰν οὖν τοῦ πάθουσ πρὸσ τὸ ὑποκείμενον ἐκτὸσ ἔχοντοσ, ἢ μένειν ἐπὶ τοῦ πάθουσ δεῖ τὴν πίστιν ἢ τὸ εἶναι τῷ φαίνεσθαι προσαποφαινομένην ἐλέγχεσθαι. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 256)
  • ἓν μὲν οὖν οὐδέν ἐστι παράσημον αὐτῆσ ἐκφανὲσ οὕτωσ, ὥστε μόνῃ ταύτῃ καὶ μηδεμιᾷ τῶν ἄλλων παρακολουθεῖν, ἡ δὲ συνδρομή τε καὶ πλεονασμόσ, οἷσ ἐλέγχεσθαι πέφυκε παντὸσ πράγματοσ καὶ σώματοσ γνῶσισ, ἴδιοσ αὐτῆσ γίνεται χαρακτήρ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 502)

Synonyms

  1. to disgrace

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

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