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ἐπελπίζω?

Non-contract Verb; Transliteration: epelpizō

Principal Part: ἐπελπίζω ἐπελπίσω

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

Sense

  1. to buoy up with hope, to cheat with false hopes

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπελπίζω ἐπελπίζεις ἐπελπίζει
Dual ἐπελπίζετον ἐπελπίζετον
Plural ἐπελπίζομεν ἐπελπίζετε ἐπελπίζουσι(ν)
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπελπίζω ἐπελπίζῃς ἐπελπίζῃ
Dual ἐπελπίζητον ἐπελπίζητον
Plural ἐπελπίζωμεν ἐπελπίζητε ἐπελπίζωσι(ν)
OptativeSingular ἐπελπίζοιμι ἐπελπίζοις ἐπελπίζοι
Dual ἐπελπίζοιτον ἐπελπιζοίτην
Plural ἐπελπίζοιμεν ἐπελπίζοιτε ἐπελπίζοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐπέλπιζε ἐπελπιζέτω
Dual ἐπελπίζετον ἐπελπιζέτων
Plural ἐπελπίζετε ἐπελπιζόντων, ἐπελπιζέτωσαν
Infinitive ἐπελπίζειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπελπιζων ἐπελπιζοντος ἐπελπιζουσα ἐπελπιζουσης ἐπελπιζον ἐπελπιζοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπελπίζομαι ἐπελπίζει, ἐπελπίζῃ ἐπελπίζεται
Dual ἐπελπίζεσθον ἐπελπίζεσθον
Plural ἐπελπιζόμεθα ἐπελπίζεσθε ἐπελπίζονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπελπίζωμαι ἐπελπίζῃ ἐπελπίζηται
Dual ἐπελπίζησθον ἐπελπίζησθον
Plural ἐπελπιζώμεθα ἐπελπίζησθε ἐπελπίζωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπελπιζοίμην ἐπελπίζοιο ἐπελπίζοιτο
Dual ἐπελπίζοισθον ἐπελπιζοίσθην
Plural ἐπελπιζοίμεθα ἐπελπίζοισθε ἐπελπίζοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπελπίζου ἐπελπιζέσθω
Dual ἐπελπίζεσθον ἐπελπιζέσθων
Plural ἐπελπίζεσθε ἐπελπιζέσθων, ἐπελπιζέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπελπίζεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπελπιζομενος ἐπελπιζομενου ἐπελπιζομενη ἐπελπιζομενης ἐπελπιζομενον ἐπελπιζομενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπῆλπιζον ἐπῆλπιζες ἐπῆλπιζε(ν)
Dual ἐπήλπιζετον ἐπηλπῖζετην
Plural ἐπήλπιζομεν ἐπήλπιζετε ἐπῆλπιζον
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπηλπῖζομην ἐπήλπιζου ἐπήλπιζετο
Dual ἐπήλπιζεσθον ἐπηλπῖζεσθην
Plural ἐπηλπῖζομεθα ἐπήλπιζεσθε ἐπήλπιζοντο

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

  • Ὁ δὲ Μίλωνα, τὸν σὺν τῷ Κλωδίῳ τὴν ἀρχὴν παραδεδεγμένον, θρασύτερον ὄντα τοῦ Κλωδίου, ἐς ὑπατείαν ἐπήλπιζε καὶ ἤλειφεν ἐπὶ τὸν Κλώδιον καὶ ψηφίσασθαι τῷ Κικέρωνι κάθοδον ἐκέλευεν, ἐλπίσας τὸν Κικέρωνα ἐλθόντα περὶ μὲν τῆς παρούσης πολιτείας οὐκέτι φθέγξεσθαι μεμνημένον, οἱᾶ ἔπαθε, δίκας δὲ καὶ πράγματα ἐποίσειν τῷ Κλωδίῳ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 3 2:1)
  • οἱ δὲ αὐτόν τε τὸν Δολοβέλλαν καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἐπήλπιζον χάριν ἐκ τοῦ δήμου λαβόντες ἐς τὰς αὐτὰς ἀρχὰς ἀποφανεῖν αὐτίκα καὶ οὐκ ἀρχόντων ἀλλαγήν, ἀλλὰ μόνης ἔσεσθαι χειροτονίας ἐπὶ τὸ νομιμώτερον ἐκ τοῦ μοναρχικοῦ: (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 18 4:7)
  • καὶ τάχα ἂν ἔδρασαν, εἰ μὴ Πέδιος αὐτοὺς ὁ ὕπατος μετὰ κηρύκων περιθέων ἐπήλπιζε περιμείναντας ἐς ἑώ τὰ ἀκριβέστατα μαθεῖν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 2 2:6)
  • " Ὁ μὲν τοιαῦτα λέγων διετρόχαζε, καὶ αὐτὸν αἱ τάξεις ἐπήλπιζον καὶ μετὰ βοῆς παρέπεμπον εὐφήμου: (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 16 9:9)
  • ἐπήλπιζε δ αὐτὸν οὐχ ἧττον, εἰ καὶ πάντα κατὰ νοῦν πράξας ὑποστρέψειεν Ἡρώδης, μηδὲν ὅτι τῇ γυναικὶ δυνήσεσθαι βουλομένῃ γε ἀντειπεῖν: (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 249:1)

Synonyms

  1. to buoy up with hope

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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