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ἐπιγράφω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιγράφω ἐπιγράψω

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + γράφ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to mark the surface, just pierce, graze
  2. to mark, put a mark on, writing.
  3. to write upon, inscribe, to be inscribed upon, hadst, painted on thy shield
  4. to set down, in the title, the damages claimed
  5. to register, to have one's, registered, had them registered
  6. to choose, and have his name entered
  7. to lend, to, to endorse, to inscribe one's name
  8. to assume

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιγράφω ἐπιγράφεις ἐπιγράφει
Dual ἐπιγράφετον ἐπιγράφετον
Plural ἐπιγράφομεν ἐπιγράφετε ἐπιγράφουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιγράφω ἐπιγράφῃς ἐπιγράφῃ
Dual ἐπιγράφητον ἐπιγράφητον
Plural ἐπιγράφωμεν ἐπιγράφητε ἐπιγράφωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐπιγράφοιμι ἐπιγράφοις ἐπιγράφοι
Dual ἐπιγράφοιτον ἐπιγραφοίτην
Plural ἐπιγράφοιμεν ἐπιγράφοιτε ἐπιγράφοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐπιγράφε ἐπιγραφέτω
Dual ἐπιγράφετον ἐπιγραφέτων
Plural ἐπιγράφετε ἐπιγραφόντων, ἐπιγραφέτωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιγράφειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιγραφων ἐπιγραφοντος ἐπιγραφουσα ἐπιγραφουσης ἐπιγραφον ἐπιγραφοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιγράφομαι ἐπιγράφει, ἐπιγράφῃ ἐπιγράφεται
Dual ἐπιγράφεσθον ἐπιγράφεσθον
Plural ἐπιγραφόμεθα ἐπιγράφεσθε ἐπιγράφονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιγράφωμαι ἐπιγράφῃ ἐπιγράφηται
Dual ἐπιγράφησθον ἐπιγράφησθον
Plural ἐπιγραφώμεθα ἐπιγράφησθε ἐπιγράφωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπιγραφοίμην ἐπιγράφοιο ἐπιγράφοιτο
Dual ἐπιγράφοισθον ἐπιγραφοίσθην
Plural ἐπιγραφοίμεθα ἐπιγράφοισθε ἐπιγράφοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπιγράφου ἐπιγραφέσθω
Dual ἐπιγράφεσθον ἐπιγραφέσθων
Plural ἐπιγράφεσθε ἐπιγραφέσθων, ἐπιγραφέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιγράφεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιγραφομενος ἐπιγραφομενου ἐπιγραφομενη ἐπιγραφομενης ἐπιγραφομενον ἐπιγραφομενου

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

  • διόπερ τινὲσ καὶ τὸ Σοφοκλέουσ δρᾶμα κατὰ τὸ οὐδέτερον ἐπιγράφειν ἀξιοῦσιν Σύνδειπνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 68 2:5)
  • τὸν δὲ δῆμον ὁ Κάτων ἔφη τῶν Ῥωμαίων οὐ μόνον ταῖσ πορφύραισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ ἐπιτηδεύμασι τὰσ τιμὰσ ἐπιγράφειν. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 8 4:1)
  • ὑμεῖσ δὲ οὐδ’ ἐπὶ τὰ ψηφίσματα εἰᾶτε τὸ Δημοσθένουσ ἐπιγράφειν ὄνομα, ἀλλὰ Ναυσικλεῖ τοῦτο προσετάττετε· (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 159 1:2)
  • οὗτοι δεῦρο ἀφικόμενοι τὸν δῆμον ᾔτησαν δωρεάν, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖσ ὁ δῆμοσ τιμὰσ μεγάλασ, ὡσ τότ’ ἐδόκει, τρεῖσ λιθίνουσ Ἑρμᾶσ στῆσαι ἐν τῇ στοᾷ τῇ τῶν Ἑρμῶν, ἐφ’ ᾧτε μὴ ἐπιγράφειν τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἑαυτῶν, ἵνα μὴ τῶν στρατηγῶν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ δήμου δοκῇ εἶναι τὸ ἐπίγραμμα. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 183 1:2)
  • λοιπὸν οὖν τῶν δύο θάτερον, ἢ τῷ σφόδρα εἶναί τινασ μεγάλουσ καὶ κατ’ ἀλήθειαν ἡρ́ωασ οὐκ ᾤοντο δεῖν ἐπιγράφειν, ὡσ ἂν ἅπασι γνωρίμουσ ὄντασ, ἡγούμενοι διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆσ τότε οὔσησ δόξησ εἰσ ἅπαντα καὶ τὸν αὖθισ χρόνον παραμενεῖν τὸ ὄνομα· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 119:1)

Synonyms

  1. to mark

  2. to assume

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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