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.
- σύοσ δὲ ἀγρίου ἐπεισενεχθέντοσ, ὃσ κατ’ οὐδὲν ἦν ἐλάττων τοῦ καλοῦ γραφομένου Καλυδωνίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 641)
- τῷ δὲ Καίσαρι πάλιν νόμου γραφομένου περὶ τῶν ἐπαρχιῶν καὶ τῶν στρατοπέδων, οὐκέτι πρὸσ τὸν δῆμον ὁ Κάτων, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ αὐτὸν τραπόμενοσ Πομπήϊον ἐμαρτύρατο καὶ προὔλεγεν ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸν αὑτοῦ τράχηλον ἀναλαμβάνων Καίσαρα νῦν μὲν οὐκ οἶδεν, ὅταν δὲ ἄρχηται βαρύνεσθαι καὶ κρατεῖσθαι μήτε ἀποθέσθαι δυνάμενοσ μήτε φέρειν ὑπομένων, εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ἐμπεσεῖται σὺν αὐτῷ, καὶ μεμνήσεται τότε τῶν Κάτωνοσ παραινέσεων, ὡσ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐν αὐταῖσ τὸ Πομπηϊού συμφέρον ἐνῆν ἢ τὸ καλὸν καὶ δίκαιον. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 43 5:1)
- γενομένου τοίνυν τοῦ ψηφίσματοσ τούτου ἐν τῇ βουλῇ, καὶ οὐδενὸσ γραφομένου παρανόμων, ἀλλὰ κυρίου ὄντοσ, προσελθὼν Εὐέργῳ τουτῳὶ τῷ ἀδελφῷ τοῦ Θεοφήμου, ἐπειδὴ τὸν Θεόφημον οὐχ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν ἰδεῖν, ἔχων τὸ ψήφισμα πρῶτον μὲν ἀπῄτησα τὰ σκεύη καὶ ἐκέλευσα αὐτὸν φράσαι τῷ Θεοφήμῳ, ἔπειτα διαλιπὼν ἡμέρασ τινάσ, ὡσ οὐκ ἀπεδίδου τὰ σκεύη, ἀλλ’ ἐχλεύαζέ με, παραλαβὼν μάρτυρασ ἠρόμην αὐτὸν πότερα νενεμημένοσ εἰή πρὸσ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἢ κοινὴ ἡ οὐσία εἰή αὐτοῖσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 46:1)
- ἐνδέχεται δὲ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ εὐκράτῳ ζώνῃ καὶ δύο οἰκουμένασ εἶναι ἢ καὶ πλείουσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐγγὺσ τοῦ δι’ Ἀθηνῶν κύκλου τοῦ διὰ τοῦ Ἀτλαντικοῦ πελάγουσ γραφομένου. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 4 12:12)
- διὸ καὶ τῆσ οἰκουμένησ ἀπ’ ἀνατολῆσ ἐπὶ δύσιν μηκυνομένησ, ἀπὸ δὲ ἄρκτων ἐπὶ νότον πλατυνομένησ, καὶ τοῦ μὲν μήκουσ ἐπὶ παραλλήλου τινὸσ τῷ ἰσημερινῷ γραφομένου, τοῦ δὲ πλάτουσ ἐπὶ μεσημβρινοῦ, δεῖ καὶ τῶν μερῶν λαμβάνεσθαι μήκη μὲν τὰ παράλληλα τῷ μήκει τμήματα αὐτῆσ, πλάτη δὲ τὰ τῷ πλάτει. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 62:8)
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 )
