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

  • καὶ ἡμεῖσ ἠρόμεθα τίνεσ εἰε͂ν οἱ πολέμιοι καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν τῆσ διαφορᾶσ Ὁ δὲ Φαέθων, φησίν, ὁ τῶν ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ κατοικούντων βασιλεύσ ‐ οἰκεῖται γὰρ δὴ κἀκεῖνοσ ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ σελήνη ‐ πολὺν ἤδη πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ πολεμεῖ χρόνον. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 12:2)
  • ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ εἰπόντα ‐ σοφοὶ γεωργοὶ τῶν σοφῶν συνουσίᾳ,ἠρόμεθα "τῶν τί σοφῶν; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 27:1)
  • τί δὲ εἰ εἶπε ‐ σοφοὶ μάγειροι τῶν σοφῶν συνουσίᾳ,εἰ ἠρόμεθα· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 27:5)
  • τί δ’ εἰ ‐ σοφοὶ παλαισταὶ τῶν σοφῶν συνουσίᾳεἶπεν, εἰ ἠρόμεθα· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 27:10)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀπηλλάγη, τῶν παρόντων τινὰ ἠρόμεθα πρεσβύτην ὅστισ εἰή. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:2)

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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