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.
- Καὶ Ἀδωνίασ υἱὸσ Ἀγγὶθ ἐπῄρετο λέγων. ἐγὼ βασιλεύσω. καὶ ἐποίησεν ἑαυτῷ ἅρματα καὶ ἱππεῖσ καὶ πεντήκοντα ἄνδρασ παρατρέχειν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 1:5)
- "ἐφ’ οὗ Μέλανθοσ Μεσσήνιοσ ἐκπεσὼν τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἐπήρετο τὴν Πυθίαν ὅπου κατοικήσει, ἡ δὲ ἔφη, ἔνθα ἂν ξενίοισ πρῶτον τιμηθῇ τοὺσ πόδασ αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ παραθέντων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 507)
- ἐπεὶ δὲ διεξελθὼν τὴν ἔρημον ἧκεν εἰσ τόν τόπον, ὁ μὲν προφήτησ αὐτὸν ὁ Ἄμμωνοσ ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ χαίρειν, ὡσ ἀπὸ πατρὸσ, προσεῖπεν ὁ δὲ ἐπήρετο μή τισ αὐτὸν εἰή διαπεφευγὼσ τῶν τοῦ πατρὸσ φονέων. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 27 3:1)
- περὶ δὲ ἐρωτήσεωσ, εὔκαιρόν ἐστι ποιεῖσθαι μάλιστα μὲν ὅταν τὸ ἕτερον εἰρηκὼσ ᾖ, ὥστε ἑνὸσ προσερωτηθέντοσ συμβαίνει τὸ ἄτοπον, οἱο͂ν Περικλῆσ Λάμπωνα ἐπήρετο περὶ τῆσ τελετῆσ τῶν τῆσ σωτείρασ ἱερῶν, εἰπόντοσ δὲ ὅτι οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε ἀτέλεστον ἀκούειν, ἤρετο εἰ οἶδεν αὐτόσ, φάσκοντοσ δὲ "καὶ πῶσ, ἀτέλεστοσ ὤν; (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 18 1:1)
- καὶ ὁ Ἀντισθένησ ἐπαναστὰσ μάλα ἐλεγκτικῶσ αὐτὸν ἐπήρετο· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 3:1)
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)