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 βούλει κατὰ τὸν Ὅμηρον κἀγὼ ἔρωμαί σε, ὡσ μάθῃσ οὐδ’ αὐτὸν ἀμελέτητον ὄντα με τῶν Ὁμήρου; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 7:10)
  • οὐκοῦν μηδὲ ἐκεῖνο ὑμᾶσ ἔρωμαι, σέ τε καὶ τὴν Πρόνοιαν καὶ τὴν Εἱμαρμένην, τί δήποτε Φωκίων μὲν ὁ χρηστὸσ ἐν τοσαύτῃ πενίᾳ καὶ σπάνει τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἀπέθανε καὶ Ἀριστείδησ πρὸ αὐτοῦ, Καλλίασ δὲ καὶ Ἀλκιβιάδησ, ἀκόλαστα μειράκια, ὑπερεπλούτουν καὶ Μειδίασ ὁ ὑβριστὴσ καὶ Χάροψ ὁ Αἰγινήτησ, κίναιδοσ ἄνθρωποσ, τὴν μητέρα λιμῷ ἀπεκτονώσ, καὶ πάλιν Σωκράτησ μὲν παρεδόθη τοῖσ ἕνδεκα, Μέλητοσ δὲ οὐ παρεδόθη, καὶ Σαρδανάπαλλοσ μὲν ἐβασίλευε θῆλυσ ὤν, Γώχησ δὲ ἀνὴρ ἐνάρετοσ ἀνεσκολοπίσθη πρὸσ αὐτοῦ, διότι μὴ ἠρέσκετο τοῖσ γιγνομένοισ· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 16:6)
  • ἤν σοι παραστήσασ τινὰ ἐγκεκαλυμμένον ἔρωμαι, τοῦτον οἶσθα; (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 21:23)
  • ἀπόκριναί νυν ἅττ’ ἂν ἔρωμαι. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests31)
  • φέρ’ ἐσ σκοτεινὰσ περιβολὰσ μεθῶ ξίφοσ καὶ τάσδ’ ἔρωμαι, τίνεσ ἐφεστᾶσιν δόμοισ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode11)

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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