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ἔρομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: eromai

Principal Part: ἔρομαι

Structure: ἔρ (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

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἔρομαι ἔρει, ἔρῃ ἔρεται
Dual ἔρεσθον ἔρεσθον
Plural ἐρόμεθα ἔρεσθε ἔρονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἔρωμαι ἔρῃ ἔρηται
Dual ἔρησθον ἔρησθον
Plural ἐρώμεθα ἔρησθε ἔρωνται
OptativeSingular ἐροίμην ἔροιο ἔροιτο
Dual ἔροισθον ἐροίσθην
Plural ἐροίμεθα ἔροισθε ἔροιντο
ImperativeSingular ἔρου ἐρέσθω
Dual ἔρεσθον ἐρέσθων
Plural ἔρεσθε ἐρέσθων, ἐρέσθωσαν
Infinitive ἔρεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐρομενος ἐρομενου ἐρομενη ἐρομενης ἐρομενον ἐρομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἠρόμην ἤρου ἤρετο
Dual ἤρεσθον ἠρέσθην
Plural ἠρόμεθα ἤρεσθε ἤροντο

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

  • ἄλλως ἠρόμην. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 3:11)
  • ἡδέως ἂν οὖν ἐροίμην σε, ὦ Ζεῦ, εἴ που εἶδες ἢ ἀρετὴν ἢ φύσιν ἢ εἱμαρμένην · (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 13:5)
  • ἡδέως δ ἂν καὶ ἐροίμην σε, τὰ τοσαῦτα βιβλία ἔχων τί μάλιστα ἀναγιγνώσκεις αὐτῶν· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 27:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἡδέως ἂν ἐροίμην οὐκ ἐκεῖνον ἀλλ ὑμᾶς, εἰ καὶ τοὺς κακούργους βούλοισθε ἂν μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι τῆς καρτερίας ταύτης καὶ καταφρονεῖν θανάτου καὶ καύσεως καὶ τῶν τοιούτων δειμάτων. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:60)
  • "καὶ τί τοῦτο ἠρόμην, ὅπου μηδ αὐτῶν τις τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ ζηλώσειεν ἄν· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:66)

Synonyms

  1. to ask

  2. to enquire of

  3. to ask

Derived

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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