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ἐπιλέγω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιλέγω ἐπιλέξω

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

Sense

  1. to choose, pick out, select, he chose him, chosen men
  2. to say in addition, add further
  3. to call by name
  4. to think upon, think over, nihil curare, to deem or expect that
  5. to con over, read

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιλέγω ἐπιλέγεις ἐπιλέγει
Dual ἐπιλέγετον ἐπιλέγετον
Plural ἐπιλέγομεν ἐπιλέγετε ἐπιλέγουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιλέγω ἐπιλέγῃς ἐπιλέγῃ
Dual ἐπιλέγητον ἐπιλέγητον
Plural ἐπιλέγωμεν ἐπιλέγητε ἐπιλέγωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐπιλέγοιμι ἐπιλέγοις ἐπιλέγοι
Dual ἐπιλέγοιτον ἐπιλεγοίτην
Plural ἐπιλέγοιμεν ἐπιλέγοιτε ἐπιλέγοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐπιλέγε ἐπιλεγέτω
Dual ἐπιλέγετον ἐπιλεγέτων
Plural ἐπιλέγετε ἐπιλεγόντων, ἐπιλεγέτωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιλέγειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιλεγων ἐπιλεγοντος ἐπιλεγουσα ἐπιλεγουσης ἐπιλεγον ἐπιλεγοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιλέγομαι ἐπιλέγει, ἐπιλέγῃ ἐπιλέγεται
Dual ἐπιλέγεσθον ἐπιλέγεσθον
Plural ἐπιλεγόμεθα ἐπιλέγεσθε ἐπιλέγονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιλέγωμαι ἐπιλέγῃ ἐπιλέγηται
Dual ἐπιλέγησθον ἐπιλέγησθον
Plural ἐπιλεγώμεθα ἐπιλέγησθε ἐπιλέγωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπιλεγοίμην ἐπιλέγοιο ἐπιλέγοιτο
Dual ἐπιλέγοισθον ἐπιλεγοίσθην
Plural ἐπιλεγοίμεθα ἐπιλέγοισθε ἐπιλέγοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπιλέγου ἐπιλεγέσθω
Dual ἐπιλέγεσθον ἐπιλεγέσθων
Plural ἐπιλέγεσθε ἐπιλεγέσθων, ἐπιλεγέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιλέγεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιλεγομενος ἐπιλεγομενου ἐπιλεγομενη ἐπιλεγομενης ἐπιλεγομενον ἐπιλεγομενου

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

  • παραλαβὼν δέ με ὁ ἀνὴρ πρῶτα μὲν ἡμέρασ ἐννέα καὶ εἴκοσιν ἅμα τῇ σελήνῃ ἀρξάμενοσ ἔλουε κατάγων ἑώθεν ἐπὶ τὸν Εὐφράτην πρὸσ ἀνίσχοντα τὸν ἥλιον, ῥῆσίν τινα μακρὰν ἐπιλέγων ἧσ οὐ σφόδρα κατήκουον ὥσπερ γὰρ οἱ φαῦλοι τῶν ἐν τοῖσ ἀγῶσι κηρύκων ἐπίτροχόν τι καὶ ἀσαφὲσ ἐφθέγγετο. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 6:8)
  • ἐξηπάτων γὰρ τοὺσ μαγείρουσ ἐπιλέγων τοιαυτί· (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme6)
  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ ὁ Οὐλπιανὸσ ᾔτει πιεῖν μεγάλῃ κύλικι, ἐπιλέγων ἐκ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐλεγείων καὶ τόδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 81)
  • ὁ δὲ Ζήνων ἐπεί τισ τῶν παρόντων ὀψοφάγων ἀπέσυρεν ἅμα τῷ παρατεθῆναι τὸ ἐπάνω τοῦ ἰχθύοσ, στρέψασ καὶ αὐτὸσ τὸν ἰχθὺν ἀπέσυρεν ἐπιλέγων Ἰνὼ δὲ τἀπὶ θάτερ’ ἐξειργάζετο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 2 3:4)
  • Λάκων, ἐπεὶ τῇ μὲν προτέρᾳ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ ξένοσ αὐτὸν ἐξέκλινε, τῇ δ’ ἑξῆσ στρώματα χρησάμενοσ δαψιλῶσ ὑπεδέχετο, ἐπιβὰσ τοῖσ στρώμασι κατεπάτει, ἐπιλέγων διὰ ταῦτα ἐχθὲσ οὐδ’ ἐπὶ ψιάθου ὑπνωκέναι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 641)

Synonyms

  1. to choose

    • λέγω (to choose for oneself, pick out, to be chosen)
  2. to say in addition

  3. to call by name

  4. to think upon

Related

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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