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ἐμφύω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμφύω ἐμφύσω

Structure: ἐμ (Prefix) + φύ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: e)n

Sense

  1. to implant
  2. to grow in or on, is implanted, is set by nature
  3. to be rooted in, cling closely, clinging, clung, clinging

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐμφύω ἐμφύεις ἐμφύει
Dual ἐμφύετον ἐμφύετον
Plural ἐμφύομεν ἐμφύετε ἐμφύουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐμφύω ἐμφύῃς ἐμφύῃ
Dual ἐμφύητον ἐμφύητον
Plural ἐμφύωμεν ἐμφύητε ἐμφύωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐμφύοιμι ἐμφύοις ἐμφύοι
Dual ἐμφύοιτον ἐμφυοίτην
Plural ἐμφύοιμεν ἐμφύοιτε ἐμφύοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐμφύε ἐμφυέτω
Dual ἐμφύετον ἐμφυέτων
Plural ἐμφύετε ἐμφυόντων, ἐμφυέτωσαν
Infinitive ἐμφύειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐμφυων ἐμφυοντος ἐμφυουσα ἐμφυουσης ἐμφυον ἐμφυοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐμφύομαι ἐμφύει, ἐμφύῃ ἐμφύεται
Dual ἐμφύεσθον ἐμφύεσθον
Plural ἐμφυόμεθα ἐμφύεσθε ἐμφύονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐμφύωμαι ἐμφύῃ ἐμφύηται
Dual ἐμφύησθον ἐμφύησθον
Plural ἐμφυώμεθα ἐμφύησθε ἐμφύωνται
OptativeSingular ἐμφυοίμην ἐμφύοιο ἐμφύοιτο
Dual ἐμφύοισθον ἐμφυοίσθην
Plural ἐμφυοίμεθα ἐμφύοισθε ἐμφύοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐμφύου ἐμφυέσθω
Dual ἐμφύεσθον ἐμφυέσθων
Plural ἐμφύεσθε ἐμφυέσθων, ἐμφυέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐμφύεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐμφυομενος ἐμφυομενου ἐμφυομενη ἐμφυομενης ἐμφυομενον ἐμφυομενου

Future tense

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

  • διὸ καὶ τῶν ζῴων τὸ φιλότεκνον τοῖσ μονοτόκοισ ἰσχυρότερον ἐμφύεται, καὶ Ὅμηροσ· (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 2 10:1)
  • "ᾧ μόνῳ ψεῦδοσ ἐμφύεται καὶ ἀπάτη, τὸ δοξάζειν καὶ προπίπτειν τὴν συγκατάθεσιν, εἶξιν οὖσαν ὑπ’ ἀσθενείασ τῷ φαινομένῳ, χρήσιμον δ’ οὐδὲν ἔχουσαν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 2612)
  • μέγα γὰρ ἡ περιαυτολογία τὴν φιλαυτίαν ὁρμητήριον ἔχουσα, καὶ τοῖσ πάνυ δοκοῦσι μετρίωσ ἔχειν πρὸσ δόξαν ἐμφύεται πολλάκισ ἐπιτιθεμένη. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 182)
  • αἰτία δὲ ἀληθινὴ μὲν ἦν ἡ ἀρετή, δι’ ἣν οὐ δόξαν, οὐ πλοῦτον ἀπὸ τῶν πράξεων μετιόντεσ, οἷσ ὁ χαλεπὸσ καὶ δύσερισ ἐμφύεται φθόνοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔρωτα θεῖον ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἐρασθέντεσ ἀμφότεροι τοῦ τὴν πατρίδα λαμπροτάτην καὶ μεγίστην ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν ἰδεῖν γενομένην, ὥσπερ ἰδίοισ ἐπὶ τοῦτο τοῖσ αὑτῶν ἐχρῶντο κατορθώμασιν. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 4 3:1)
  • "ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τὸ τῆσ μηδικῆσ σπέρμα πολυκαμπὲσ καὶ σκαληνὸν ἐμφύεται τῇ γῇ καὶ διαμένει πολὺν χρόνον ὑπὸ τραχύτητοσ, οὕτωσ ὁ πόνοσ ἄγκιστρα καὶ ῥίζασ διασπείρων καὶ συμπλεκόμενοσ τῇ σαρκὶ καὶ παραμένων οὐχ ἡμέρασ οὐδὲ νύκτασ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡρ́ασ ἐτῶν ἐνίοισ καὶ περιόδουσ ὀλυμπιακὰσ, μόλισ ὑπ’ ἄλλων πόνων ὥσπερ ἥλων σφοδροτέρων ἐκκρουόμενοσ ἀπαλλάττεται. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 313)

Synonyms

  1. to implant

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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