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.
- καίτοι ὅτι Μητρόδωροσ εἰσ Πειραιᾶ κατέβη σταδίουσ τεσσαράκοντα Μιθρῇ τινι Σύρῳ τῶν βασιλικῶν συνειλημμένῳ βοηθήσων, πρὸσ πάντασ ἐγράφετο καὶ πάσασ, πάσαισ ἐπιστολαῖσ μεγαληγοροῦντοσ Ἐπικούρου καὶ σεμνύνοντοσ ἐκείνην τὴν ὁδόν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 333)
- "γινομένων δὲ τῶν Δημητρίων Ἀθήνησιν ἐγράφετο ἐπὶ τοῦ προσκηνίου ἐπὶ τῆσ Οἰκουμένησ ὀχούμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:34)
- εἰ γὰρ ὀφείλοντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ πάππου πάλαι, καὶ τοῦ νόμου κελεύοντοσ κληρονομεῖν τοῦτον τῶν ἐκείνου, προσῆκον αὐτῷ μηδὲ πάλαι γράφεσθαι ἐγράφετο, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οἰήσεται δεῖν ἀποφεύγειν ὅτι πονηρὸσ ἐκ τριγονίασ ἐστίν, οὐ δίκαια ἐρεῖ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 28:1)
- δέλτα γὰρ ἐγράφετο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2602)
- περὶ δὲ συκοφαντίασ, ὅσασ οὗτοσ ἢ δίκασ ἰδίασ συκοφαντῶν ἐδικάζετο ἢ γραφὰσ ὅσασ ἐγράφετο ἢ ἀπογραφὰσ ἀπέγραφεν, οὐδὲν με δεῖ καθ’ ἕκαστον λέγειν· (Lysias, Speeches, 88:1)
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 )
