Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπιρρώομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιρρώομαι ἐπερρωσάμην

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + ῥώ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to flow or stream upon, flowed waving
  2. to move nimbly, urge the rapid
  3. to apply one's strength to, work lustily at

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • οἱ δ’ ἄρα μητρῴησ ἐρατῆσ ἀίοντεσ ἐφετμῆσ φοιτητῆρεσ Ἔρωτεσ ἐπερρώοντο τιθήνῃ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 152)
  • χρύσεοι δὲ παρειάων ἑκάτερθεν πλοχμοὶ βοτρυόεντεσ ἐπερρώοντο κιόντι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 11:3)
  • φήμην δ’ ἐξ οἴκοιο γυνὴ προέηκεν ἀλετρὶσ πλησίον, ἔνθ’ ἄρα οἱ μύλαι ἡάτο ποιμένι λαῶν, τῇσιν δώδεκα πᾶσαι ἐπερρώοντο γυναῖκεσ ἄλφιτα τεύχουσαι καὶ ἀλείατα, μυελὸν ἀνδρῶν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. to flow or stream upon

  2. to move nimbly

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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