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ἐπιτέμνω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτέμνω ἐπιτεμῶ ἐπέταμον

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

Sense

  1. to cut upon the surface, make an incision, gash
  2. to cut short, to abridge, shorten, epitomize
  3. to cut off
  4. (passive) to be cut short, perish

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιτέμνω ἐπιτέμνεις ἐπιτέμνει
Dual ἐπιτέμνετον ἐπιτέμνετον
Plural ἐπιτέμνομεν ἐπιτέμνετε ἐπιτέμνουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιτέμνω ἐπιτέμνῃς ἐπιτέμνῃ
Dual ἐπιτέμνητον ἐπιτέμνητον
Plural ἐπιτέμνωμεν ἐπιτέμνητε ἐπιτέμνωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐπιτέμνοιμι ἐπιτέμνοις ἐπιτέμνοι
Dual ἐπιτέμνοιτον ἐπιτεμνοίτην
Plural ἐπιτέμνοιμεν ἐπιτέμνοιτε ἐπιτέμνοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐπιτέμνε ἐπιτεμνέτω
Dual ἐπιτέμνετον ἐπιτεμνέτων
Plural ἐπιτέμνετε ἐπιτεμνόντων, ἐπιτεμνέτωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιτέμνειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιτεμνων ἐπιτεμνοντος ἐπιτεμνουσα ἐπιτεμνουσης ἐπιτεμνον ἐπιτεμνοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιτέμνομαι ἐπιτέμνει, ἐπιτέμνῃ ἐπιτέμνεται
Dual ἐπιτέμνεσθον ἐπιτέμνεσθον
Plural ἐπιτεμνόμεθα ἐπιτέμνεσθε ἐπιτέμνονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιτέμνωμαι ἐπιτέμνῃ ἐπιτέμνηται
Dual ἐπιτέμνησθον ἐπιτέμνησθον
Plural ἐπιτεμνώμεθα ἐπιτέμνησθε ἐπιτέμνωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπιτεμνοίμην ἐπιτέμνοιο ἐπιτέμνοιτο
Dual ἐπιτέμνοισθον ἐπιτεμνοίσθην
Plural ἐπιτεμνοίμεθα ἐπιτέμνοισθε ἐπιτέμνοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπιτέμνου ἐπιτεμνέσθω
Dual ἐπιτέμνεσθον ἐπιτεμνέσθων
Plural ἐπιτέμνεσθε ἐπιτεμνέσθων, ἐπιτεμνέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιτέμνεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιτεμνομενος ἐπιτεμνομενου ἐπιτεμνομενη ἐπιτεμνομενης ἐπιτεμνομενον ἐπιτεμνομενου

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

  • εἰσὶ γὰρ παρὰ τὰ ὦτα φλέβεσ, ἃσ ἐάν τισ ἐπιτάμῃ, ἄγονοι γίνονται οἱ ἐπιτμηθέντεσ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxii.11)
  • τῆσ ἀκόνησ, ἡ δὲ ἀκμὴ τοῦ σιδήρου δι’ ὅλου κατελθοῦσα τοῦ λίθου τήν τε ἀκόνην διαιρεῖ καὶ τῆσ κατεχούσησ αὐτὴν χειρὸσ ἐπιτέμνει τι μέροσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 7:1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ οὕτωσ εἰμὶ γέρων ὥστ’ ἂν ἀπελπισθῆναι ταχέωσ, οὔτε εἰσ τρυφὴν ἐκδιαιτώμενοσ, ἣ καὶ νέουσ ἐπιτέμνεται· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 657:2)
  • τὰσ γὰρ ἐξετάσεισ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὁ περὶ τῆσ ψυχῆσ κίνδυνοσ ἐπετέμνετο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 697:5)
  • ὁρ́κια δὲ ποιέεται ταῦτα τὰ ἔθνεα τὰ πέρ τε Ἕλληνεσ, καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισι, ἐπεὰν τοὺσ βραχίονασ ἐπιτάμωνται ἐσ τὴν ὁμοχροίην, τὸ αἷμα ἀναλείχουσι ἀλλήλων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 74 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. to cut off

  2. to be cut short

Derived

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