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.
- τῆσ μὲν γὰρ ἀληθοῦσ ἐστι τεκμήριον ἱστορίασ, εἰ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἅπαντεσ ταὐτὰ καὶ λέγοιεν καὶ γράφοιεν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 31:2)
- πότερον οὖν, ὅταν περὶ γραμμάτων Ἀθηναῖοι βουλεύωνται, πῶσ ἂν ὀρθῶσ γράφοιεν, τότε ἀναστήσῃ αὐτοῖσ συμβουλεύσων; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 23:1)
- καὶ ἃ μὲν τῆσ παιδείασ αὐτῶν ἀπέλαυσαν ὑπερβαίνει, ἃ δ’ οὐχ ὧν ἐπαιδεύθησαν ἦν, ἀλλὰ τῆσ ἀνθρωπείασ φύσεωσ ἐμμεμενηκότα, ταῦτ’ ἐπ’ ἐκείνουσ ἄγει τοὺσ ὅπωσ μηδὲν ἁμαρτήσονται πᾶν ὅσον ἦν ἐν αὑτοῖσ πράττοντασ, ὥσπερ ἂν εἴ τισ τοὺσ γραμματιστὰσ τοὺσ παραδείξαντασ τοῖσ παισὶ τὰ γράμματα καὶ δείξαντασ γράφειν ἐκ τῶν δυνατῶν αἰτίουσ εἶναι φάσκοι τῶν περὶ ταῦτα ἁμαρτημάτων, εἴ τι μὴ καλῶσ ὕστερον μηδὲ ὡσ χρὴ γράφοιεν ἐφ’ αὑτῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 110:9)
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 )
