φλέγω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
φλέγω
Structure:
φλέγ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- I set on fire, burn, scorch
- I kindle, arouse, inflame
Conjugation
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.
- ποτὲ δὲ καὶ μεταξὺ ὕδατοσ ὑπὲρ τὴν πυρὸσ δύναμιν φλέγει, ἵνα ἀδίκου γῆσ γεννήματα διαφθείρῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:19)
- νῦν δέ μοι πρὸ τειχέων θούριοσ μολὼν Ἄρησ αἷμα δάιον φλέγει τᾷδ’, ὃ μὴ τύχοι, πόλει· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, strophe 21)
- ἀμφὶ δὲ πτόλιν νέφοσ ἀσπίδων πυκνὸν φλέγει σχῆμα φοινίου μάχησ, ἃν Ἄρησ τάχ’ εἴσεται παισὶν Οἰδίπου φέρων πημονὰν Ἐρινύων. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 21)
- ἔχει δὲ σῆμα γυμνὸν ἄνδρα πυρφόρον, φλέγει δὲ λαμπὰσ διὰ χερῶν ὡπλισμένη· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 1 1:5)
- Ἄρεά τε τὸν μαλερόν, ὃσ νῦν ἄχαλκοσ ἀσπίδων φλέγει με περιβόατον, ἀντιάζω παλίσσυτον δράμημα νωτίσαι πάτρασ ἔπουρον, εἴτ’ ἐσ μέγαν θάλαμον Ἀμφιτρίτασ εἴτ’ ἐσ τὸν ἀπόξενον ὁρ́μων Θρῄκιον κλύδωνα· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 31)
Synonyms
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I set on fire
- φλεγέθω (to burn, scorch, burn up)
- συγκαίω (set on fire with or at once, burn up)
- ἐπιφλέγω (to burn up, consume, to set fire to)
- καυματίζω (to burn or scorch up, to be burnt up)
- ἐμπίμπρημι (to kindle, burn, set on fire)
- φλογίζω (to set on fire, burn, burn up)
- ἐκφλέγω (to set on fire)
- πυρφορέω (to set on fire)
- διαπυρόω (to set on fire)
- προσκαίω (to set on fire or burn besides, burnt at the fire, to be in love with . .)
- περικαίω (to burn round about: - , to be all scorched)
