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.
- ἔγωγ̓ οὖν, εἰ σκέψαιο, δόξαιμ̓ ἄν σοι οὐ τὸ σμικρότατον τῆσ Αἰγυπτίασ ταύτησ ἀρχῆσ ἐγκεχειρίσθαι, τὰσ δίκασ εἰσάγειν καὶ τάξιν αὐταῖσ τὴν προσήκουσαν ἐπιτιθέναι καὶ τῶν πραττομένων καὶ λεγομένων ἁπαξαπάντων ὑπομνήματα γράφεσθαι καὶ τάσ τε ῥητορείασ τῶν δικαιολογούντων ῥυθμίζειν καὶ τὰσ τοῦ ἄρχοντοσ γνώσεισ πρὸσ τὸ σαφέστατον ἅμα καὶ ἀκριβέστατον σὺν πίστει τῇ μεγίστῃ διαφυλάττειν καὶ παραδιδόναι δημοσίᾳ πρὸσ τὸν ἀεὶ χρόνον ἀποκεισομένασ, καὶ ὁ μισθὸσ οὐκ ἰδιωτικόσ, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέωσ, οὐ σμικρὸσ οὐδὲ οὗτοσ, ἀλλὰ πολυτάλαντοσ· (Lucian, Apologia 29:2)
- οὐ γράφεσθαι παρανόμων; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 121:6)
- χρὴ τοίνυν καὶ τὴν ἱστορίαν οὕτω γράφεσθαι σὺν τῷ ἀληθεῖ μᾶλλον πρὸσ τὴν μέλλουσαν ἐλπίδα ἤπερ σὺν κολακείᾳ πρὸσ τὸ ἡδὺ τοῖσ νῦν ἐπαινουμένοισ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 631)
- βέλτιον γὰρ οὕτωσ φησὶν ὁ Σέλευκοσ γράφεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 14 2:2)
- ἐκ δὲ τούτων μᾶλλον ἀεὶ τὸν Τίτον ἐλύπουν ἑαυτοῖσ ἀνατιθέντεσ τὸ νίκημα καὶ τῇ φήμῃ προκαταλαμβάνοντεσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ, ὥστε καὶ γράφεσθαι καὶ ᾄδεσθαι προτέρουσ ἐκείνουσ ὑπὸ ποιητῶν καὶ ἰδιωτῶν ὑμνούντων τὸ ἔργον, ὧν μάλιστα διὰ στόματοσ ἦν τουτὶ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα· (Plutarch, Titus Flamininus, chapter 9 1:2)
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 )
