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

  • "διὰ τί ἄλυποι ἀλλήλοισ εἰσὶν οἱ ἐρέται, · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 425)
  • "ὡσ δ’ ἐντὸσ ἦν καὶ τὰσ κώπασ ἔλαβον οἱ ἐρέται, Χρυσόγονοσ μὲν ηὔλει τὸ τριηρικὸν ἐνδεδυκὼσ τὴν Πυθικὴν στολήν, Καλλιππίδησ δ’ ὁ τραγῳδὸσ ἐκέλευε τὴν ἐπὶ τῆσ σκηνῆσ στολὴν ἠμφιεσμένοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:21)
  • καί τινεσ οἶνον ἄγοντεσ ἐν εἰρεσίᾳ Διονύσου συμποσίου ναῦται καὶ κυλίκων ἐρέται μάρνανται περὶ τοῦδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 61 2:2)
  • Σουσισκάνησ, Πηγασταγὼν Αἰγυπτογενήσ, ὅ τε τῆσ ἱερᾶσ Μέμφιδοσ ἄρχων μέγασ Ἀρσάμησ, τάσ τ’ ὠγυγίουσ Θήβασ ἐφέπων Ἀριόμαρδοσ, καὶ ἑλειοβάται ναῶν ἐρέται δεινοὶ πλῆθόσ τ’ ἀνάριθμοι. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests9)
  • ἐρέται δὲ μέγ’ ἰάχον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 9:26)

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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