Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • διῄρηκε δ’ αὐτὴν εἰσ γραφὰσ δύο, Περὶ Σικελίασ μὲν τὴν προτέραν ἐπιγράφων, Περὶ Διονυσίου δὲ τὴν ὑστέραν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 5 1:3)
  • καὶ μὴν ἂν ἐμοὶ μᾶλλον χαρίζοιο ἢ Δίωνι ἐπιγράφων φιλοσόφῳ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 2:17)
  • οὐ γὰρ ὅπλων ἀριθμὸν ἐξετάζων οὐδὲ γυμνασιῶν ποιούμενοσ ἁμίλλασ, ἀλλὰ προσόδουσ πόλεων ἐκλογιζόμενοσ καὶ τὰ χρήματα τῆσ ἐν Ιἑραπόλει θεοῦ σταθμοῖσ καὶ τρυτάναισ μεταχειριζόμενοσ ἐπὶ πολλὰσ ἡμέρασ, ἐπιγράφων δὲ καὶ δήμοισ καὶ δυνάσταισ στρατιωτῶν καταλόγουσ, εἶτ’ ἀνιεὶσ ἀργύριον διδόντασ, ἠδόξει καὶ κατεφρονεῖτο τούτοισ. (Plutarch, chapter 17 5:1)
  • ταύτην δὲ τὴν νίκην οὕτω σφόδρα ἠγάπησαν, ὥστε ἀναστάτου τῆσ πόλεωσ αὐτοῖσ γενομένησ καὶ ἔτι νῦν σχεδὸν οὔσησ πλὴν μικροῦ μέρουσ, τῆσ Καδμείασ , τῶν μὲν ἄλλων οὐδενὸσ ἐφρόντισαν τῶν ἠφανισμένων ἀπὸ πολλῶν μὲν ἱερῶν, πολλῶν δὲ στηλῶν καὶ ἐπιγραφῶν, τὸν δὲ Ἑρμῆν ἀναζητήσαντεσπάλιν ἀνώρθωσαν, ἐφ’ ᾧ ἦν τὸ ἐπίγραμμα τὸ περὶ τῆσ αὐλητικῆσ, Ἑλλὰσ μὲν Θήβασ νικᾶν προέκρινεν ἐν αὐλοῖσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 146:1)
  • καί τισ αὐτῷ συνῆρχε δραπέτησ εἶναι νομιζόμενοσ, Γράκχον ἑαυτῷ τὸν πρεσβύτερον πατέρα ἐπιγράφων. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 4 6:2)

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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