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ἐπαίω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

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 ἐπαῖουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπαῖω ἐπαῖῃς ἐπαῖῃ
Dual ἐπαῖητον ἐπαῖητον
Plural ἐπαῖωμεν ἐπαῖητε ἐπαῖωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐπαῖοιμι ἐπαῖοις ἐπαῖοι
Dual ἐπαῖοιτον ἐπαίοιτην
Plural ἐπαῖοιμεν ἐπαῖοιτε ἐπαῖοιεν
ImperativeSingular έ̓παιε 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

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

  • εὖτ’ ἂν ἐκεῖνα ἴδῃσ, μέμνησό μοι τουτέων, κοίη ἐκείνου ἀοιδή, κοίη δὲ καὶ ἡ λύρη, κοῖοσ δὲ καὶ ταῦροσ ἢ ὁκοῖοσ λέων Ὀρφέοσ ἐπαϊούσιν. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 10:6)
  • οἱ μὲν πολλοὶ νομίζουσιν ὅτι ὑψοῦ τοῖσι θεοῖσιν ὁμιλέει καὶ ἀγαθὰ ξυναπάσῃ Συρίῃ αἰτέει, οἱ δὲ τῶν εὐχωλέων ἀγχόθεν ἐπαϊούσιν. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 28:7)
  • περὶ ἧσ οὐθὲν ἐπαί̈ουσιν, ἐπεὶ ὥσπερ ἔστι καὶ ἀριθμοῦ ᾗ ἀριθμὸσ ἴδια πάθη, οἱο͂ν περιττότησ ἀρτιότησ, συμμετρία ἰσότησ, ὑπεροχὴ ἔλλειψισ, καὶ ταῦτα καὶ καθ’ αὑτοὺσ καὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ὑπάρχει τοῖσ ἀριθμοῖσ ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ στερεῷ καὶ ἀκινήτῳ καὶ κινουμένῳ ἀβαρεῖ τε καὶ βάροσ ἔχοντι ἔστιν ἕτερα ἴδια, οὕτω καὶ τῷ ὄντι ᾗ ὂν ἔστι τινὰ ἴδια, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ περὶ ὧν τοῦ φιλοσόφου ἐπισκέψασθαι τὸ ἀληθέσ. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 4 34:1)
  • ὅταν δὲ ἅπαξ γραφῇ, κυλινδεῖται μὲν πανταχοῦ πᾶσ λόγοσ ὁμοίωσ παρὰ τοῖσ ἐπαί̈ουσιν, ὡσ δ’ αὕτωσ παρ’ οἷσ οὐδὲν προσήκει, καὶ οὐκ ἐπίσταται λέγειν οἷσ δεῖ γε καὶ μή. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 317:6)
  • εἶναι, αὐτόσ τε οὐκ ἐπαί̈ων περὶ σκυτοτομίασ καὶ τοῖσ μὴ ἐπαί̈ουσιν, ἐκ τῶν χρωμάτων δὲ καὶ σχημάτων θεωροῦσιν; (Plato, Republic, book 10 135:1)

Synonyms

  1. to give ear to

  2. to perceive

  3. to understand

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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