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ἐπελπίζω

Non-contract Verb; Transliteration:

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 ἐπελπίζουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπελπίζω ἐπελπίζῃς ἐπελπίζῃ
Dual ἐπελπίζητον ἐπελπίζητον
Plural ἐπελπίζωμεν ἐπελπίζητε ἐπελπίζωσιν*
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

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

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

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