Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπαράομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπαράομαι ἐπαράσομαι ἐπήραμαι

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

Sense

  1. to imprecate curses upon, to utter an imprecation

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

  • ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων οὐ φάγεται καὶ τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ ἐπάρῃ πρὸσ τὰ ἐνθυμήματα οἴκου Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ μιάνῃ καὶ πρὸσ γυναῖκα ἐν ἀφέδρῳ οὖσαν οὐ προσεγγιεῖ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 18:6)
  • ἐγκώμιον ἐχθὲσ ἀνεγνωσμένον ἐπάρῃ τοῦ μετρίου πέρα τοὺσ φιλοθήρουσ ἡμῖν νεανίσκουσ, ὥστε τἄλλα πάρεργα καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ἡγεῖσθαι, πρὸσ τοῦτο παντάπασι ῥυέντασ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 1 3:3)
  • ὅταν δ’ αὖτ’ ἐπ’ ἀλκῆσ ἐπάρῃ <μ’ ἐλπὶσ>, ἀπέστασεν ἄχοσ προσφανεῖσά μοι καλῶσ. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 52)
  • Λοιπὸν ἡμεῖσ τί φοβούμεθα ἐκπέμποντεσ νέον ἐπί τινασ πράξεισ ἐκ τῆσ σχολῆσ, μὴ ἄλλωσ ποιήσῃ τι, μὴ ἄλλωσ φάγῃ, μὴ ἄλλωσ συνουσιάσῃ, μὴ ταπεινώσῃ αὐτὸν ῥάκη περιτεθέντα, μὴ ἐπάρῃ κομψὰ ἱμάτια; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. to imprecate curses upon

Derived

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

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