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

  • οὐκοῦν ἐπεὶ λίθου τοῦτό γε ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἐποίησασ οὔτε παρακολουθήσασ οὔτε τὸν Σμυρναῖον ἐκεῖνον ἐρόμενοσ, ὅστισ ἦν, κἂν τὸ εἶδοσ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε ὑπόδειξον τῷ λόγῳ· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 3:1)
  • καὶ στρατηγὸσ οὐδ’ ἂν εἷσ τῶν πρὸ τοῦ σίτησιν ᾔτησ’ ἐρόμενοσ Κλεαίνετον· (Aristotle, Parabasis, epirrheme4)
  • ἃ μὲν οὖν πρὸσ τὸν Γαλαξιδώρου λόγον ἀντεῖπεν ὁ Σιμμίασ οὐκ ἠκούσαμεν αὐτὸσ δὲ Σωκράτη μὲν ἔφη περὶ τούτων ἐρόμενόσ ποτε μὴ τυχεῖν ἀποκρίσεωσ, διὸ μηδ’ αὖθισ ἐρέσθαι πολλάκισ δ’ αὐτῷ παραγενέσθαι τοὺσ μὲν δι’ ὄψεωσ ἐντυχεῖν θείῳ τινὶ λέγοντασ ἀλαζόνασ ἡγουμένῳ, τοῖσ δ’ ἀκοῦσαί τινοσ φωνῆσ φάσκουσι· (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 20 2:1)
  • ἔπειτα τῶν ἑταίρων ἐκκλέψαι βουλομένων αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐφείπετο, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπισκῶψαι ἐδόκει ἐρόμενοσ εἴ που εἰδεῖέν τι χωρίον ἔξω τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ ἔνθα οὐ προσβατὸν θανάτῳ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, 25:4)
  • ἔναγχοσ γάρ τισ, ὦ ἄριστε, εἰσ ἀπορίαν με κατέβαλεν ἐν λόγοισ τισὶ τὰ μὲν ψέγοντα ὡσ αἰσχρά, τὰ δ’ ἐπαινοῦντα ὡσ καλά, οὕτω πωσ ἐρόμενοσ καὶ μάλα ὑβριστικῶσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 33:4)

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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