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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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἤροντο τοῦ ἐπιβουλεύοντοσ τοὔνομα κἀγὼ ἔφην ὅτι Οὐτίσ ἐστι, μελαγχολᾶν οἰηθέντεσ με ᾤχοντο ἀπιόντεσ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, cyclops and poseidwn, chapter 45)
  • λύων γὰρ τὰ πεπεμμένα βιβλία καὶ ἀναγιγνώσκων, εἴ τι εὑρ́οι ἐπισφαλὲσ καὶ παρακεκινδυνευμένον ἐν ταῖσ ἐρωτήσεσιν, κατεῖχεν αὐτὸσ καὶ οὐκ ἀπέπεμπεν, ὡσ ὑποχειρίουσ καὶ μονονουχὶ δούλουσ διὰ τὸ δέοσ ἔχοι τοὺσ πεπομφότασ, μεμνημένουσ οἱᾶ ἦν ἃ ἤροντο. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 32:2)
  • καὶ ἤροντο ὅκοι ἐλαύνουσιν· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 34 10:2)
  • ἀκούσαντεσ δέ μου οἱ ἐξηγηταὶ ταῦτα, ἤροντό με πότερον ἐξηγήσωνταί μοι μόνον ἢ καὶ συμβουλεύσωσιν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 88:1)
  • περὶ γάρ τοι τῶν ποιημάτων ὧν πεποίηκασ ἐντείνασ τοὺσ τοῦ Αἰσώπου λόγουσ καὶ τὸ εἰσ τὸν Ἀπόλλω προοίμιον καὶ ἄλλοι τινέσ με ἤδη ἤροντο, ἀτὰρ καὶ Εὐήνοσ πρῴην, ὅτι ποτὲ διανοηθείσ, ἐπειδὴ δεῦρο ἦλθεσ, ἐποίησασ αὐτά, πρότερον οὐδὲν πώποτε ποιήσασ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 21:2)

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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