φλέγω?
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration: phlegō
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)
- ὅστις πυρὸς λαμπτῆρας ἐξήρθης κλύων φλέγειν Ἀχαιούς, καὶ στρατὸν μέλλεις ἄγειν τάφρους ὑπερβὰς νυκτὸς ἐν καταστάσει. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:17)
- φλέγω - ἰδού, ἰδού - λαμπάσι τόδ ἱερόν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric5)
- κἀπιστήσει μισεῖν ἀγορὰν καὶ βαλανείων ἀπέχεσθαι, καὶ τοῖς αἰσχροῖς αἰσχύνεσθαι, κἂν σκώπτῃ τίς σε φλέγεσθαι: (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme 1:5)
- νῦν δέ μοι πρὸ τειχέων θούριος μολὼν Ἄρης αἷμα δάιον φλέγει τᾷδ, ὃ μὴ τύχοι, πόλει: (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, strophe 21)
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)
