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

  • ἐρομένησ δὲ τῆσ Ἀλφεσιβοίασ πῶσ, ὑπολαβών φησιν τὴν μὲν θανεῖν ἔκριναν, ἐμὲ δὲ μὴ κτανεῖν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 23 3:9)
  • ἐρομένησ δὲ τῆσ γερουσίασ, διὰ ποίαν αἰτίαν ἀλλοτρίωσ ἔχοι πρὸσ τὸν γάμον, ἄν τε μικρὰν ἄν τε μείζω λέγῃ, πρὸσ ταῦτα ῥεπέτω· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 325:2)
  • ἐρομένησ δέ τινοσ αὐτὸν φωνῆσ ἐξ ἀδήλου, τί παρείη καταλελοιπὼσ τὴν πόλιν ἐκεῖσε, διὰ τὸ κτεῖναι μὲν τοὺσ προφήτασ τῶν ξενικῶν θεῶν, πεῖσαι δὲ τὸν λαὸν ὅτι μόνοσ εἰή θεὸσ ὁ ὤν, ὃν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἐθρήσκευσαν, ἔφησε· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 436:2)

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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