ἐπαίρω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἐπαίρω
ἐπαρῶ
ἐπῆρα
Structure:
ἐπ
(Prefix)
+
αί̓ρ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to lift up and set on
- to lift, raise
- to exalt, magnify
- to lift up one's leg or rise up
- to stir up, excite, to induce or persuade, to be led on, excited
- to be elated at, to be conceited or proud
Conjugation
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.
- εἶδον τὸν ἀσεβῆ ὑπερυψούμενον καὶ ἐπαιρόμενον ὡσ τὰσ κέδρουσ τοῦ Λιβάνου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 36:35)
- ταῦτά τε δὴ φιλότιμα, καὶ τὸ πολλάκισ ἐπαιρόμενον τοῦ λόγου τῇ δεινότητι τὸ πρέπον προϊέσθαι. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 25 1:1)
- τὸν μὲν ὕπατον Γάιον Φλαμίνιον οὐδὲν ἤμβλυνε τούτων, ἄνδρα πρὸσ τῷ φύσει θυμοειδεῖ καὶ φιλοτίμῳ μεγάλαισ ἐπαιρόμενον εὐτυχίαισ, ἃσ πρόσθεν εὐτύχησε παραλόγωσ, τῆσ τε βουλῆσ ἀπᾳδούσησ καὶ τοῦ συνάρχοντοσ ἐνισταμένου βίᾳ συμβαλὼν τοῖσ Γαλάταισ καὶ κρατήσασ, Φάβιον δὲ τὰ μὲν σημεῖα, καίπερ ἁπτόμενα πολλῶν, ἧττον ὑπέθραττε διὰ τὴν ἀλογίαν· (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 2 4:1)
- καὶ τόν μὲν λόφον ἀπέρραξε μετὰ θατέρου πτεροῦ, τὸ δὲ κράνοσ πρὸσ τὴν πληγὴν ἀκριβῶσ καὶ μόλισ ἀντέσχεν, ὥστε τῶν πρώτων ψαῦσαι τριχῶν τὴν πτέρυγα τῆσ κοπίδοσ, ἑτέραν δὲ τόν Σπιθριδάτην πάλιν ἐπαιρόμενον ἔφθασε Κλεῖτοσ ὁ μέλασ τῷ ξυστῷ διελάσασ μέσον, ὁμοῦ δὲ καὶ Ῥοισάκησ ἔπεσεν ὑπὸ Ἀλεξάνδρου ξίφει πληγείσ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 16 5:2)
- τοῦτο δὲ οὐ μικρὸν παρεῖχε τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ, ὁπότε ἴδοι τινὰ μάτην ἐπαιρόμενον καὶ διὰ πρᾶγμα οὐδενὸσ ἄξιον ἔξω τοῦ φρονεῖν, συστείλασ ἐπὶ βραχὺ καὶ ἀφελὼν μικρόν τι τῆσ ἀνοίασ, ὥσπερ οἱ τὰ πεφυσημένα καὶ οἰδοῦντα νύξαντεσ ἢ σείσαντεσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 25:1)
Synonyms
-
to lift up and set on
-
to lift
- διαίρω (to raise up, lift up)
- ἐπανατέλλω (to lift up, raise)
- αἰωρέω (to lift up, raise, raising)
- βασάζω (to lift, lift up, raise)
- ἀναβαστάζω (to raise or lift up, carry)
- ὑψόω (to lift high, raise up)
- ἀείρω (to lift up, raise, support)
- ἀκταίνω (to lift up, raise, to raise)
- ἀερτάζω (to lift up)
- ἀνεγείρω (to raise)
- κουφίζω (to make light, to lift up, raise)
- ἐπαναίρω (to lift up, to raise one against another, to rise up)
-
to exalt
- σεμνύνω (to exalt, magnify, to be in high repute)
- ἀέξω (to exalt by one's deeds, to magnify, to magnify)
-
to lift up one's leg or rise up
- ἐπαναίρω (to lift up, to raise one against another, to rise up)
-
to stir up
- προάγω (to lead on, induce, persuade)
Derived
- αἴρω (Alternative form of ἀείρω )
- ἀναίρω (to lift up, carried up)
- ἀνταίρω (to raise against, to rise up against, to rise opposite to)
- ἀπαίρω (to lift off, carry off, take away)
- εἰσαίρω (to bring or carry in)
- ἐναίρω (to slay, to kill, slay)
- ἐπαναίρω (to lift up, to raise one against another, to rise up)
- καταίρω (to come down, make a swoop, to put into port)
- κατεναίρομαι (to kill, slay, murder)
- μεταίρω (to lift up and remove, to shift, repeal)
- παρεξαίρω (to lift up beside)
- συναίρω (to take up together, to balance, to take part in)
- ὑπεραίρω (to lift or raise up over, to lift oneself above, to exalt oneself)