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ἐπαισχύνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαισχύνομαι ἐπαισχυνθήσομαι

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + αἰσχύν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be ashamed at or of, to be ashamed, to be ashamed of

Conjugation

Present tense

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

  • Ἀθηναίουσ τοίνυν καὶ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ τῶν ἄλλων Ιὤνων ἐπαισχύνεσθαι τῷ ὀνόματι τούτῳ, μὴ βουλομένουσ ἀλλὰ φεύγοντασ Ιὤνασ κεκλῆσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ νομίζοντασ αὐτῶν γενναιοτάτουσ εἶναι καὶ ὁρμηθέντασ ἀπὸ τοῦ πρυτανηίου τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐκ βαρβάρων παιδοποιήσασθαι γυναικῶν, πατέρασ αὐτῶν καὶ ἄνδρασ καὶ παῖδασ φονεύσαντασ· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 192)
  • οἱ μέν νυν ἄλλοι Ιὤνεσ καὶ οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι ἔφυγον τὸ οὔνομα, οὐ βουλόμενοι Ιὤνεσ κεκλῆσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν φαίνονταί μοι οἱ πολλοὶ αὐτῶν ἐπαισχύνεσθαι τῷ οὐνόματι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 143 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be ashamed at or of

Derived

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

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