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.
- ΟΥΑΙ τοῖσ γράφουσι πονηρίαν. γράφοντεσ γὰρ πονηρίαν γράφουσιν (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 10:1)
- κεκολάφθαι γὰρ ἐπ̓ αὐτῇ ἄνθρωπον μὲν τινα οἱο͂ν τὸν Τάνταλον γράφουσιν ἐν λίμνῃ ἑστῶτα καὶ ἀρυομενον τοῦ ὕδατοσ, ὡσ πίοι δή, τὸ θηρίον δὲ τὴν διψάδα ἐμπεφυκὸσ αὐτῷ περιεσπειρᾶσθαι τῷ ποδί, καί τινασ γυναῖκασ ὑδροφορούσασ ἅμα πολλὰσ καταχεῖν τὸ ὕδωρ αὐτοῦ πλησίον δὲ ᾠὰ κεῖσθαι οἱᾶ τῶν στρουθῶν ἐκείνων, οὓσ ἔφην θηρᾶν τοὺσ Γαράμαντασ· (Lucian, Dipsades 10:1)
- πρῶτόν τε καὶ σχεδὸν ἀναγκαιότατον ἔργον ἁπάντων ἐστὶ τοῖσ γράφουσιν πᾶσιν ἱστορίασ ὑπόθεσιν ἐκλέξασθαι καλὴν καὶ κεχαρισμένην τοῖσ ἀναγνωσομένοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 2:2)
- εἰ δὲ καὶ κάμοιμι, χαμαὶ τὸν τρίβωνα ὑποβαλόμενοσ ^ κείσομαι ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνοσ οἱο͂ν τὸν Ἡρακλέα γράφουσιν. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 13:4)
- "οὕτωσ ἔμιξε τὴν λέξιν, ὥστε πάσῃ καὶ φύσει καὶ διαθέσει καὶ ἡλικίᾳ σύμμετρον εἶναι, καὶ ταῦτα νέοσ μὲν ἔτι τοῦ πράγματοσ ἁψάμενοσ, ἐν ἀκμῇ δὲ τοῦ ποιεῖν καὶ διδάσκειν τελευτήσασ, ὅτε μάλιστα καὶ πλείστην ἐπίδοσιν, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ φησί, λαμβάνει τὰ περὶ τὴν λέξιν τοῖσ γράφουσιν. (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 25)
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 )
