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

  • ἐπερρώσαντο δὲ ποσσίν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 2:3)
  • ἀμβρόσιαι δ’ ἄρα χαῖται ἐπερρώσαντο ἄνακτοσ κρατὸσ ἀπ’ ἀθανάτοιο· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:2)
  • αἱ δ’ ἑκάτερθεν χεῖρεσ ἐπερρώσαντο περὶ σθένεϊ σφριγόωσαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:8)
  • ἀμβρόσιαι δ̓ ἄρα χαῖται ἐπερρώσαντο ἄνακτοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 28)
  • τοῦ κινήσαντοσ ὀλίγῳ νεύματι τῶν ὀφρύων τὸν ξύμπαντα Ὄλυμπον, ὡσ ἐκεῖνοσ μάλιστα ἐναργῶσ καὶ πεποιθότωσ ἐν τοῖσ ἔπεσιν εἴρηκεν, ἦ καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ’ ὀφρύσι νεῦσε Κρονίων, ἀμβρόσιαι δ’ ἄρα χαῖται ἐπερρώσαντο ἄνακτοσ κρατὸσ ἀπ’ ἀθανάτοιο, μέγαν δ’ ἐλέλιξεν Ὄλυμπον. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 32:1)

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.

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION