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

  • οὐδέν , ὦ Ἀθηνᾶ, δεινὸν οὐδὲ καθ’ ὑμῶν, ἀλλ’ ἤρετό με εἰ ἄγαμοσ ὁ Πάρισ ἐστίν. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 4:2)
  • φησὶ δ’ οὖν ὅτι ἄλλωσ ἐπελθόν, οὐκ ἐξεπίτηδεσ ἤρετο, τί οὖν; (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 4:5)
  • ὁρᾷσ, οὐδὲν ἐγὼ μέμφομαι οὐδὲ ἐγκαλῶ σοι τὸ πρὸσ ταύτην ἰδίᾳ λαλεῖν μεμψιμοίρων γὰρ καὶ οὐκ Ἀφροδίτησ τὰ τοιαῦτα, καὶ αὕτη σχεδὸν τὰ αὐτά με ἤρετο· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 4:11)
  • Ἁρμονίδησ ὁ αὐλητὴσ ἤρετό ποτε Τιμόθεον διδάσκαλον αὐτοῦ ὄντα, Εἰπέ μοι, ἔφη, ὦ Τιμόθεε, πῶσ ἄν ἔνδοξοσ γενοίμην ἐπὶ τῇ τέχνῃ; (Lucian, Harmonides 1:1)
  • καὶ μὴν καὶ φυσικόν τινα περὶ τῶν ἀντιπόδων διαλεγόμενον ἀναστήσασ καὶ ἐπὶ φρέαρ ἀγαγὼν καὶ δείξασ αὐτῷ τὴν ἐν τῷ ὕδατι σκιὰν ἤρετο, Τοιούτουσ ἄρα τοὺσ ἀντίποδασ εἶναι λέγεισ; (Lucian, (no name) 22:1)

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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