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φαλακρόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαλακρόομαι

Structure: φαλακρό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from falakro/s

Sense

  1. to become bald

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • ὧν ὁ μὲν κέρατα ἔχων καὶ ὅσον ἐξ ἡμισείασ ἐσ τὸ κάτω αἰγὶ ἐοικὼσ καὶ γένειον βαθὺ καθειμένοσ ὀλίγον τράγου διαφέρων ἐστίν, ὁ δὲ φαλακρὸσ γέρων, σιμὸσ τὴν ῥῖνα, ἐπὶ ὄνου τὰ πολλὰ ὀχούμενοσ, Λυδὸσ οὗτοσ, οἱ δὲ Σάτυροι ὀξεῖσ τὰ ὦτα, καὶ αὐτοὶ φαλακροί, κεράσται, οἱᾶ τοῖσ ἄρτι γεννηθεῖσιν ἐρίφοισ τὰ κέρατα ὑποφύεται, Φρύγεσ τινὲσ ὄντεσ· (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 4:5)
  • τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, οἱ ὡραιότατοι τῶν οἰνοχόων φαλακροὶ ἐν ἀκαρεῖ τοῦ χρόνου ὑμῖν γενήσονται, ἐπὶ κατεαγότι καὶ ταῦτα τῷ ἀμφορεῖ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 5:5)
  • Ἅπαντεσ φαλακροί εἰσιν· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 10:6)
  • εἰ οὖν γίνονται ἔκ τε φαλακρῶν φαλακροὶ καὶ ἐκ γλαυκῶν γλαυκοὶ καὶ ἐκ διεστραμμένων στρεβλοὶ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ, καὶ περὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ μορφῆσ ὁ αὐτὸσ λόγοσ, τί κωλύει καὶ ἐκ μακροκεφάλου μακροκέφαλον γίνεσθαι; (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xiv.8)
  • Εὐνοῦχοι οὐ ποδαγριῶσιν, οὐδὲ φαλακροὶ γίνονται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., AFORISMOI., 60.28)

Synonyms

  1. to become bald

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

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