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.
- ὅσα μὲν οὖν Ἀριστοτέλησ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ γέγραφε μαρτυρόμενοσ διαρρήδην, ὅτι τὰσ ῥητορικὰσ τέχνασ συνετάξατο πρεσβύτεροσ ὢν ἤδη καὶ τὰσ κρατίστασ συντάξεισ προεκδεδωκώσ, ταῦτ’ ἐστίν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 7 2:3)
- ἐνθυμούμενοσ δέ, ὅτι τὴν μὲν ποιητικὴν κατασκευὴν καὶ τὸ μετέωρον δὴ τοῦτο καὶ πομπικὸν εἰρημένον οὐδεὶσ Ἰσοκράτουσ ἀμείνων ἐγένετο, παρέλιπον ἑκών, οὓσ ᾔδειν ἧττον ἐν ταῖσ ἰδέαισ ταύταισ κατορθοῦντασ, Γοργίαν μὲν τὸν Λεοντῖνον ἐκπίπτοντα τοῦ μετρίου καὶ πολλαχοῦ παιδαριώδη γιγνόμενον ὁρῶν, Ἀλκιδάμαντα δὲ τὸν ἀκουστὴν αὐτοῦ παχύτερον ὄντα τὴν λέξιν καὶ κενότερον, Θεόδωρον δὲ τὸν Βυζάντιον ἀρχαῖόν τινα καὶ οὔτε ἐν ταῖσ τέχναισ ἀκριβῆ οὔτε ἐξέτασιν ἱκανὴν ἐν τοῖσ ἐναγωνίοισ δεδωκότα λόγοισ, Ἀναξιμένην δὲ τὸν Λαμψακηνὸν ἐν ἁπάσαισ μὲν ταῖσ ἰδέαισ τῶν λόγων τετράγωνόν τινα εἶναι βουλόμενον καὶ γὰρ ἱστορίασ γέγραφε καὶ περὶ τοῦ ποιητοῦ συντάξεισ καταλέλοιπε καὶ τέχνασ ἐξενήνοχεν, ἧπται δὲ καὶ συμβουλευτικῶν καὶ δικανικῶν ἀγώνων, οὐ μέντοι τέλειόν γε ἐν οὐδεμιᾷ τούτων τῶν ἰδεῶν ἀλλ’ ἀσθενῆ καὶ ἀπίθανον ὄντα ἐν ἁπάσαισ θεωρῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 193)
- περὶ τούτων οὖν μάρτυρασ ὑμῖν δεῖ καλεῖν, ἢ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὅσουσ οὗτοσ γέγραφε προξένουσ εἶναι καὶ Ἀθηναίουσ; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 53:1)
- γέγραψαι ψήφισμα, Δημόσθενεσ, πολλῶν ὄντων καὶ δεινῶν παρανόμων ὧν Δημάδησ γέγραφε; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 122:1)
- ὁ δὲ Σινωπεὺσ Βάτων αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐθέλειν μάχεσθαί φησι τὸν Ἆγιν Ἀράτου κελεύοντοσ, οὐκ ἐντετυχηκὼσ οἷσ Ἄρατοσ γέγραφε περὶ τούτων, ἀπολογιζόμενοσ ὅτι βέλτιον ἡγεῖτο, τοὺσ καρποὺσ σχεδὸν ἅπαντασ συγκεκομισμένων ἤδη τῶν γεωργῶν, παρελθεῖν τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἢ μάχῃ διακινδυνεῦσαι περὶ τῶν ὅλων. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 15 2:1)
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 )
