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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

  • ἡ δὲ δόξα τῶν ἔργων ἐπίεζε φθόνῳ τὸν Φειδίαν, καὶ μάλισθ’ ὅτι τὴν πρὸσ Ἀμαζόνασ μάχην ἐν τῇ ἀσπίδι ποιῶν αὑτοῦ τινα μορφὴν ἐνετύπωσε πρεσβύτου φαλακροῦ πέτρον ἐπῃρμένου δι’ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν χειρῶν, καὶ τοῦ Περικλέουσ εἰκόνα παγκάλην ἐνέθηκε μαχομένου πρὸσ Ἀμαζόνα. (Plutarch, , chapter 31 4:1)
  • δοκεῖσ οὖν τι, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, διαφέρειν αὐτοὺσ ἰδεῖν ἀργύριον κτησαμένου χαλκέωσ φαλακροῦ καὶ σμικροῦ, νεωστὶ μὲν ἐκ δεσμῶν λελυμένου, ἐν βαλανείῳ δὲ λελουμένου, νεουογὸν ἱμάτιον ἔχοντοσ, ὡσ νυμφίου παρεσκευασμένου, διὰ πενίαν καὶ ἐρημίαν τοῦ δεσπότου τὴν θυγατέρα μέλλοντοσ γαμεῖν; (Plato, Republic, book 6 250:1)
  • ἀναμνησθῶ καὶ τοῦ φαλακροῦ χαλκέωσ τοῦ τῇ δεσποίνῃ συνοικοῦντοσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 198:4)

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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