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.
- Εἶτά τισ αὐτὸσ ταῦτα γεγραφὼσ καὶ κατηγορίαν οὕτω δεινὴν κατὰ τοῦ τοιουτου βίου διεξελθών, ἔπειτα πάντων ἐκλαθόμενοσ, ὀστράκου, φησί, μεταπεσόντοσ ἑκὼν ἑαυτὸν φέρων ἐσ δουλείαν οὕτω περιφανῆ καὶ περίβλεπτον ἐνσέσεικε; (Lucian, Apologia 2:2)
- ἐπεὶ δέ σοι μετέδοξε βελτίω ταῦτα εἶναι καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐλευθερίαν μακρὰ χαίρειν ἐᾶν, ζηλῶσαι δὲ τὸ ἀγεννέστατον ἐκεῖνο ἰαμβεῖον ὅπου τὸ κέρδοσ, παρὰ φύσιν δουλευτέον, ὁρ́α ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ ἔτι ἀκούσεταί σου ἀναγινώσκοντοσ αὐτό, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἄλλῳ παράσχῃσ τῶν τὸν παρόντα σου βίον ὁρώντων ἐπελθεῖν τὰ γεγραμμένα, εὔχου δὲ Ἑρμῇ τῷ χθονίῳ καὶ τῶν ἀκηκοότων πρότερον πολλὴν λήθην κατασκεδάσαι, ἢ δόξεισ τῷ τοῦ Κορινθίου μύθου ταὐτόν τι πεπονθέναι, κατὰ σαυτοῦ ὁ Βελλεροφόντησ γεγραφὼσ τὸ βιβλίον· (Lucian, Apologia 9:2)
- ἀπόχρη μὲν οὖν καὶ ταῦτα ῥηθέντα φανερὰν ποιῆσαι τὴν φιλοτιμίαν τῶν ἀξιούντων τὰσ Ἀριστοτέλουσ ἐζηλωκέναι τέχνασ τὸν Δημοσθένη, ὃσ ἤδη τέτταρασ μὲν ἔτυχεν εἰρηκὼσ δημηγορίασ Φιλιππικάσ, τρεῖσ δὲ Ἑλληνικάσ, πέντε δὲ λόγουσ δημοσίουσ εἰσ δικαστήρια γεγραφώσ, οὓσ οὐδεὶσ ἂν ἔχοι διαβαλεῖν ὡσ εὐτελεῖσ τινασ καὶ φαύλουσ καὶ μηδὲν ἐπιφαίνοντασ τεχνικόν, ἐπειδὴ πρὸ τῶν Ἀριστοτέλουσ συνετάχθησαν τεχνῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 101)
- καὶ παρ’ Αἰγυπτίοισ δὲ τὸ παλαιὸν σωφρονικῶσ διεξήγετο τὸ τῶν συμποσίων γένοσ, καθάπερ εἴρηκεν Ἀπολλώνιοσ ὁ περὶ τούτων γεγραφώσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 18 2:1)
- καὶ ἐν τῇ πέμπτῃ βύβλῳ πάλιν συνκεφαλαιοῦται τοὺσ χρόνουσ, ἀφ’ οὗ τε ἤρξατο καὶ μέχρι οὗ προελθὼν κατελύθη, ταῦτα κατὰ λέξιν γεγραφώσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 124)
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 )
