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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

  • ἐν Θήβαισ ὑπὸ τοῦ γυμνασιάρχου μαστιγωθείσ, οἱ δὲ ἐν Κορίνθῳ ὑπὸ Εὐθυκράτουσ, καὶ ἑλκόμενοσ τοῦ ποδόσ, ἐπέλεγεν ἀφροντιστῶν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 41)
  • ἅμα δὲ ἡμέρᾳ οἱ μὲν ὕπατοι τὸ πλῆθοσ ἐσ ἐκκλησίαν συνεκάλουν, καὶ ἀνεγινώσκετο αὐτοῖσ τὰ δόξαντα, καὶ Κικέρων πολὺ τῆσ ἀμνηστίασ ἐγκώμιον ἐπέλεγεν· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 19 7:2)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ λόγοισ ἕτεροι θρῆνοι μετὰ ᾠδῆσ κατὰ πάτριον ἔθοσ ὑπὸ χορῶν ἐσ αὐτὸν ᾔδοντο καὶ τὰ ἔργα αὖθισ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ πάθοσ κατέλεγον καί που τῶν θρήνων αὐτὸσ ὁ Καῖσαρ ἐδόκει λέγειν, ὅσουσ εὖ ποιήσειε τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἐξ ὀνόματοσ, καὶ περὶ τῶν σφαγέων αὐτῶν ἐπέλεγεν ὥσπερ ἐν θαύματι· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 20 4:7)
  • ἐν Θήβαισ ὑπὸ τοῦ γυμνασιάρχου μαστιγωθείσ‐‐οἱ δέ, ἐν Κορίνθῳ ὑπ’ Εὐθυκράτουσ‐‐καὶ ἑλκόμενοσ τοῦ ποδὸσ ἐπέλεγεν ἀφροντιστῶν, ἕλκε ποδὸσ τεταγὼν διὰ βηλοῦ θεσπεσίοιο. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. e'. KRATHS 6:6)
  • παιδία περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν παίζοντα ‐ ἀριθμὸν δὲ αὐτῶν οὐ μνημονεύουσιν ‐ ἐπέτυχε καλῳδίῳ, δήσαντα δὲ τὸ καλῴδιον τοῦ ἀγάλματοσ περὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἐπέλεγεν ὡσ ἀπάγχοιτο ἡ Ἄρτεμισ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 11:3)

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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