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ἐπιτέρπομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτέρπομαι

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

Sense

  1. to rejoice or delight in

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιτέρπομαι ἐπιτέρπει, ἐπιτέρπῃ ἐπιτέρπεται
Dual ἐπιτέρπεσθον ἐπιτέρπεσθον
Plural ἐπιτερπόμεθα ἐπιτέρπεσθε ἐπιτέρπονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιτέρπωμαι ἐπιτέρπῃ ἐπιτέρπηται
Dual ἐπιτέρπησθον ἐπιτέρπησθον
Plural ἐπιτερπώμεθα ἐπιτέρπησθε ἐπιτέρπωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπιτερποίμην ἐπιτέρποιο ἐπιτέρποιτο
Dual ἐπιτέρποισθον ἐπιτερποίσθην
Plural ἐπιτερποίμεθα ἐπιτέρποισθε ἐπιτέρποιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπιτέρπου ἐπιτερπέσθω
Dual ἐπιτέρπεσθον ἐπιτερπέσθων
Plural ἐπιτέρπεσθε ἐπιτερπέσθων, ἐπιτερπέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιτέρπεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιτερπομενος ἐπιτερπομενου ἐπιτερπομενη ἐπιτερπομενης ἐπιτερπομενον ἐπιτερπομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπετερπόμην ἐπετέρπου ἐπετέρπετο
Dual ἐπετέρπεσθον ἐπετερπέσθην
Plural ἐπετερπόμεθα ἐπετέρπεσθε ἐπετέρποντο

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

  • ἑβδομάτῳ δ’ ἐπιτέρπεται Ὠρείθυια· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 120 1:1)
  • χαίρει καὶ σύριγγι νομεὺσ ἐν ὄρεσσι λιγαίνων, καὶ πολιοῖσ ἐρίφοισ ἐπιτέρπεται αἰπόλοσ αἰγῶν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 363 1:2)
  • ἄλλοσ γάρ τ’ ἄλλοισιν ἀνὴρ ἐπιτέρπεται ἔργοισ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 20:14)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἓν καὶ μόνον τοῦθ’ ὅτι περ ἂν φθέγξηται καὶ κελεύσῃ ὁ θεὸσ διὰ μνήμησ ἔχουσι καὶ τεθνάναι μᾶλλον ἢ παραβῆναί τι τούτων αἱρουμένοισ ἐπιτέρπεται, καὶ οὔτε θυσίαν ἐπιζητεῖ παρ’ αὐτῶν καὶ παρὰ θυόντων δὲ, κἂν ᾖ λιτά, τῆσ πενίασ ἥδιον τὴν τιμὴν ἢ παρὰ τῶν πλουσιωτάτων δεξιοῦται. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 191:1)

Synonyms

  1. to rejoice or delight in

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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