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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

  • ὁ δὲ πιστεύσασ τῇ ἀποπομπῇ τοῦ μισθοῦ καὶ τῇ ἐπιγραφῇ τοῦ βιβλίου, πρὸσ μίαν ἐρώτησιν ‐ ἦν δὲ αὕτη· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 54:4)
  • καὶ εὑρέθη κεῖθι ὁ Τόξαρισ τεθαμμένοσ τῇ τε ἐπιγραφῇ γνωσθείσ, εἰ καὶ μὴ πᾶσα ἐφαίνετο ἔτι, καὶ μάλιστα, ὅτι ἐπὶ τῇ στήλῃ Σκύθησ ἀνὴρ ἐγκεκόλαπτο, τῇ λαιᾷ μὲν τόξον ἔχων ἐντεταμένον, τῇ δεξιᾷ δὲ βιβλίον, ὡσ ἐδόκει. (Lucian, Scytha 4:2)
  • οὔπω δὲ πέντε ὅλουσ διελθὼν σταδίουσ εὑρ͂ον ἱερὸν Ποσειδῶνοσ, ὡσ ἐδήλου ἡ ἐπιγραφή, καὶ μετ’ οὐ πολὺ καὶ τάφουσ πολλοὺσ καὶ στήλασ ἐπ’ αὐτῶν πλησίον τε πηγὴν ὕδατοσ διαυγοῦσ, ἔτι δὲ καὶ κυνὸσ ὑλακὴν ἠκούομεν καὶ καπνὸσ ἐφαίνετο πόρρωθεν καί τινα καὶ ἔπαυλιν εἰκάζομεν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 32:6)
  • Ιὄβασ γὰρ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐν ταῖσ Ὁμοιότησι τὸν αὐτὸν εἶναί φησι τραπεζοκόμον καὶ τὸν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων καλούμενον στρούκτωρα, παρατιθέμενοσ ἐκ δράματοσ Ἀλεξάνδρου ᾧ ἐπιγραφὴ Πότοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 70 1:2)
  • χάριν ἀπώσασθαι καὶ φιλοφροσύνην πρὸσ τοῦτο ῥυέντοσ, ῶσπερ οὐκ ἀργυρίτην οὐδὲ δωρίτην ἀγῶνα πολιτείασ ἀγωνιζομένοισ ἀλλ’ ἱερὸν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ καὶ στεφανίτην, ἐπιγραφή τισ ἀρκεῖ καὶ πινάκιον καὶ ψήφισμα καὶ θαλλόσ, ὡσ Ἐπιμενίδησ ἔλαβεν ἐξ ἀκροπόλεωσ καθήρασ τὴν πόλιν. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 27 10:1)

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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