γράφω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
γράφω
γράψω
ἔγραψα
γέγραφα
γέγραμμαι
ἐγράφην
Structure:
γράφ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- I scratch, carve
- I draw, sketch
- I write
- I indict, prosecute
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.
- ὁ Ζεῦξισ ἐκεῖνοσ ἄριστοσ γραφέων γενόμενοσ τὰ δημώδη καὶ τὰ κοινὰ ταῦτα οὐκ ἔγραφεν, ἢ ὅσα πάνυ ὀλίγα, ἡρ́ωασ ἢ θεοὺσ ἢ πολέμουσ, ἀεὶ δὲ καινοποιεῖν ἐπειρᾶτο καὶ τι ἀλλόκοτον ἂν καὶ ξένον ἐπινοήσασ ἐπ̓ ἐκείνῳ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῆσ τέχνησ ἐπεδείκνυτο· (Lucian, Zeuxis 5:2)
- καὶ ὁ [μὲν Σόλων οὐδ’ ὃ] δικαίωσ ἔγραφεν ψήφ[ισμά τισ τοῦ νόμου] οἰέται δεῖν κυριώ[τερον εἶναι, σὺ δὲ καὶ τ]ὰσ ἀδίκουσ συνθ[ήκασ ἀξιοῖσ κρατεῖν πάντων τ]ῶν νόμων. (Hyperides, Speeches, 22:5)
- Αἰτωλοὶ γὰρ ἦσαν ἐπίδοξοι διὰ τῆσ Μεγαρικῆσ ἐμβαλοῦντεσ εἰσ Πελοπόννησον καὶ τοῦτο κωλύσων Ἄρατοσ ὁ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν στρατηγὸσ ἤθροιζε δύναμιν καὶ τοῖσ ἐφόροισ ἔγραφεν. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 13 4:2)
- Ὁμήρῳ γοῦν, καίτοι πρὸσ τὸ μυθῶδεσ τὰ πλεῖστα συγγεγραφότι ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἀχιλλέωσ, ἤδη καὶ πιστεύειν τινὲσ ὑπάγονται, μόνον τοῦτο εἰσ ἀπόδειξιν τῆσ ἀληθείασ μέγα τεκμήριον τιθέμενοι, ὅτι μὴ περὶ ζῶντοσ ἔγραφεν· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 40 1:3)
- ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὰ κατὰ τήν τέχνην ἀηδῶσ ἐποιεῖτο ἀλλὰ ῥᾳδίωσ, ὡσ καὶ ᾄδειν γράφοντα, ὡσ ἱστορεῖ Θεόφραστοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ Εὐδαιμονίασ τερατευόμενοσ δὲ ἔλεγεν, ὅτε τὸν ἐν Λίνδῳ Ἡρακλέα ἔγραφεν, ὡσ ὄναρ αὐτῷ ἐπιφαινόμενοσ ὁ θεὸσ σχηματίζοι αὑτὸν πρὸσ τὴν τῆσ γραφῆσ ἐπιτηδειότητα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 62 3:3)
Synonyms
-
I scratch
- κνάω (to scratch, to scratch oneself)
-
I draw
-
I write
-
I indict
Derived
- ἀναγράφω (to engrave and set up, to inscribe, register)
- ἀπογράφω (to write off, copy: to enter in a list, register)
- διαγράφω (to mark out by lines, delineate, to draw a line through)
- ἐγγράφω (to mark in or on, to paint on, to inscribe)
- εἰσγράφω (to write in, inscribe, to have oneself written)
- ἐκγράφω (to write out, to write out or copy for oneself)
- ἐπιγράφω (to mark the surface, just pierce, graze)
- καταγράφω (to scratch away, lacerate, to engrave)
- μεταγράφω (to write differently, to alter or correct what one has written, to alter the record)
- παραγράφω (to write by the side, to add, to enroll)
- περιγράφω (to draw a line round, mark round, to draw)
- προγράφω (to write before or first, to give public notice of, to summon by public notice)
- προσγράφω (to write besides, add in writing, conditions added to a treaty)
- προσεγγράφω (to inscribe besides upon a pillar, to add a limiting clause)
- προσεπιγράφω (to write on besides)
- συγγράφω (to write or note down, to have, written down)
- συναναγράφω (to register or record together)
- ὑπογράφω (to write under, to sign )
