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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

  • ὅθεν δὴ καὶ πάντεσ ὀνόματι κοινῷ Κίλικεσ ἐκαλοῦντο, ἀρξαμένου μὲν ἴσωσ τοῦ κακοῦ παρὰ τῶν Τραχεωτῶν Κιλίκων, συνεπιλαβόντων δὲ Σύρων τε καὶ Κυπρίων καὶ Παμφύλων καὶ τῶν Ποντικῶν καὶ σχεδὸν ἁπάντων τῶν ἑῴων ἐθνῶν οἳ πολλοῦ καὶ χρονίου σφίσιν ὄντοσ τοῦ Μιθριδατείου πολέμου δρᾶν τι μᾶλλον ἢ πάσχειν αἱρούμενοι τὴν θάλασσαν ἀντὶ τῆσ γῆσ ἐπελέγοντο, 93. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 2:9)
  • διὰ μὲν δὴ ταῦτα τὸ βουλευτήριον ἐπελέγοντο πάντεσ ὁμαλῶσ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 16 9:6)
  • ἐπελέγοντο δὲ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην αὐτοῦ μετὰ Καίσαρα προαίρεσιν, ἔν τε τῇ πόλει φανερῶσ δορυφορηθέντοσ ὑπὸ τοσῶνδε λοχαγῶν καὶ περὶ τὴν οἰκίαν ὥσπερ ἄκραν ὅπλοισ καὶ συνθήμασι κεχρημένου καὶ τἆλλα σοβαρωτέρου σφίσι φανέντοσ ἢ κατὰ τὴν ἐτήσιον ἀρχήν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 8 2:3)
  • ἔπεμπον γὰρ αὐτῷ σκεύη χρυσᾶ καὶ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ ἁλουργεῖσ ἐσθῆτασ καὶ ἀρωμάτων γένη πολλὰ καὶ ἵππουσ καὶ ἁρ́ματα καὶ τῶν ἀχθοφόρων ἡμιόνων ὅσουσ καὶ ῥώμῃ καὶ κάλλει τὴν τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὄψιν εὖ διαθήσειν ἐπελέγοντο, ὥστε τοῖσ οὖσιν αὐτῷ πρότερον ἁρ́μασι καὶ ἵπποισ ἐκ τῶν πεμπομένων προσθέντα ποιῆσαι τὸν μὲν τῶν ἁρμάτων ἀριθμὸν τετρακοσίοισ περισσότερον, ἦν γὰρ αὐτῷ πρότερον χίλια, τὸν δὲ τῶν ἵππων δισχιλίοισ, ὑπῆρχον γὰρ αὐτῷ δισμύριοι ἵπποι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 232:1)

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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