Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔρομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρομαι

Structure: έ̓ρ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to ask, enquire
  2. to learn by enquiry, to ask after or for
  3. to enquire of, question
  4. to ask, about

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠρόμην ή̓ρου ή̓ρετο
Dual ή̓ρεσθον ἠρέσθην
Plural ἠρόμεθα ή̓ρεσθε ή̓ροντο

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

  • ἀλλὰ οὐ Σόλων γε ἐκεῖνοσ, ὦ Χάρων, ἐρᾶν αὐτοῦ φαίνεται, ὅσ, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, καταγελᾷ τοῦ Κροίσου καὶ τῆσ μεγαλαυχίασ τοῦ βαρβάρου, καί μοι δοκεῖν ἐρέσθαι τι βούλεται αὐτόν ἐπακούσωμεν οὖν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 11:13)
  • μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ προσίασιν καὶ τι καὶ ἐρέσθαι θέλουσιν. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 27:3)
  • ἐδεόμην μὲν ἔτι καὶ τοῦτο ἐρέσθαι, ποῦ αἱ Μοῖραι διατρίβουσιν ἢ πῶσ ἐφικνοῦνται τῇ ἐπιμελείᾳ τῶν τοσούτων ἐσ τὸ λεπτότατον, καὶ ταῦτα τρεῖσ οὖσαι. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 19:4)
  • ἀτὰρ σχεδὸν μὲν οἶδά σοι μισουμένη, ὅμωσ δ’ ἐρέσθαι βούλομαι· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:3)
  • καί σ’ ὦ νεανίσχ’ ὅστισ εἶ, κατ’ Αἰσχύλον ἐκ τῆσ Λυκουργείασ ἐρέσθαι βούλομαι. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics2)

Synonyms

  1. to ask

  2. to enquire of

  3. to ask

Derived

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

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