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ἐπαίω?

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration: epaiō

Principal Part: ἐπαίω

Structure: ἐπ (Prefix) + ἀί (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to give ear to
  2. to perceive, feel
  3. to understand
  4. to profess knowledge, to be a professor

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπαῖω ἐπαῖεις ἐπαῖει
Dual ἐπαῖετον ἐπαῖετον
Plural ἐπαῖομεν ἐπαῖετε ἐπαῖουσι(ν)
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπαῖω ἐπαῖῃς ἐπαῖῃ
Dual ἐπαῖητον ἐπαῖητον
Plural ἐπαῖωμεν ἐπαῖητε ἐπαῖωσι(ν)
OptativeSingular ἐπαῖοιμι ἐπαῖοις ἐπαῖοι
Dual ἐπαῖοιτον ἐπαίοιτην
Plural ἐπαῖοιμεν ἐπαῖοιτε ἐπαῖοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἔπαιε ἐπαίετω
Dual ἐπαῖετον ἐπαίετων
Plural ἐπαῖετε ἐπαίοντων, ἐπαίετωσαν
Infinitive ἐπαῖειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπαιων ἐπαιοντος ἐπαιουσα ἐπαιουσης ἐπαιον ἐπαιοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπαῖομαι ἐπαῖει, ἐπαῖῃ ἐπαῖεται
Dual ἐπαῖεσθον ἐπαῖεσθον
Plural ἐπαίομεθα ἐπαῖεσθε ἐπαῖονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπαῖωμαι ἐπαῖῃ ἐπαῖηται
Dual ἐπαῖησθον ἐπαῖησθον
Plural ἐπαίωμεθα ἐπαῖησθε ἐπαῖωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπαίοιμην ἐπαῖοιο ἐπαῖοιτο
Dual ἐπαῖοισθον ἐπαίοισθην
Plural ἐπαίοιμεθα ἐπαῖοισθε ἐπαῖοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπαῖου ἐπαίεσθω
Dual ἐπαῖεσθον ἐπαίεσθων
Plural ἐπαῖεσθε ἐπαίεσθων, ἐπαίεσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπαῖεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπαιομενος ἐπαιομενου ἐπαιομενη ἐπαιομενης ἐπαιομενον ἐπαιομενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπῆιον ἐπῆιες ἐπῆιε(ν)
Dual ἐπήιετον ἐπηῖετην
Plural ἐπήιομεν ἐπήιετε ἐπῆιον
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπηῖομην ἐπήιου ἐπήιετο
Dual ἐπήιεσθον ἐπηῖεσθην
Plural ἐπηῖομεθα ἐπήιεσθε ἐπήιοντο

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

  • ὅτι μὲν γὰρ ἀεὶ καὶ σὺ ἀκούεις ἐν ταῖς τῶν φιλοσόφων διατριβαῖς, οἶδα,^ εἰ μὴ καὶ κωφός τις εἶ,^ ὡς βοώντων αὐτῶν μὴ ἐπαϊείν. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 13:6)
  • τούτους οὐκ ἔστιν κατά γε τὴν ἐμὴν δόξαν περὶ τοῦ πράγματος ἐπαΐειν οὐδέν. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 116:1)
  • εἰς δ ἀσφάλειαν ἅπαντα μὲν ταῦτα ἀναγκαῖον δύνασθαι θεωρεῖν, οὐκ ἐλάχιστον δὲ περὶ νομοθεσίας ἐπαΐειν: (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 4 12:1)
  • χρήσιμον δὲ πρὸς τὰς νομοθεσίας τὸ μὴ μόνον ἐπαΐειν τίς πολιτεία συμφέρει, ἐκ τῶν παρεληλυθότων θεωροῦντα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς παρὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις εἰδέναι, αἱ ποῖαι τοῖς ποίοις ἁρμόττουσιν: (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 4 13:1)
  • φησιν ἐπαΐειν περὶ τοῦ πράγματος οὐδ ἱκανὸς εἶναι διακρῖναι ὁπότερος ὑμῶν ἀληθῆ λέγει - οὔτε γὰρ εὑρετὴς οὔτε μαθητὴς οὐδενὸς περὶ τῶν τοιούτων γεγονέναι - σὺ δ, ὦ Λάχης καὶ Νικία, εἴπετον ἡμῖν ἑκάτερος τίνι δὴ δεινοτάτῳ συγγεγόνατον περὶ τῆς τῶν νέων τροφῆς, καὶ πότερα μαθόντε παρά του ἐπίστασθον ἢ αὐτὼ ἐξευρόντε, καὶ εἰ μὲν μαθόντε, τίς ὁ διδάσκαλος ἑκατέρῳ καὶ τίνες ἄλλοι ὁμότεχνοι αὐτοῖς, ἵν, ἂν μὴ ὑμῖν σχολὴ ᾖ ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς πόλεως πραγμάτων, ἐπ ἐκείνους ἰώμεν καὶ πείθωμεν ἢ δώροις ἢ χάρισιν ἢ ἀμφότερα ἐπιμεληθῆναι καὶ τῶν ἡμετέρων καὶ τῶν ὑμετέρων παίδων, ὅπως μὴ καταισχύνωσι τοὺς αὑτῶν προγόνους φαῦλοι γενόμενοι: (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 51:1)

Synonyms

  1. to give ear to

  2. to perceive

  3. to understand

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

Derived

  • ἀίω (to perceive, to hear, to perceive)
  • ἀίω (to breathe, I was breathing out)

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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