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.
- ἐν δὴ τῷ δευτέρῳ περὶ Ἡροδότου τε καὶ Θουκυδίδου καὶ Ξενοφῶντοσ καὶ Φιλίστου καὶ Θεοπόμπου τούτουσ γὰρ ἔκρινον τοὺσ ἄνδρασ εἰσ μίμησιν ἐπιτηδειοτάτουσ τάδε γράφω· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 1:4)
- γράφω δὲ Ἀσσύριοσ ἐών, καὶ τῶν ἀπηγέομαι τὰ μὲν αὐτοψίῃ μαθών, τὰ δὲ παρὰ τῶν ἱρέων ἐδάην, ὁκόσα ἐόντα ἐμεῦ πρεσβύτερα ἐγὼ ἱστορέω. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 1:6)
- κᾆτ’ ἐπειδὰν ὦ μόνοσ, στένω κέχηνα σκορδινῶμαι πέρδομαι, ἀπορῶ γράφω παρατίλλομαι λογίζομαι, ἀποβλέπων ἐσ τὸν ἀγρὸν εἰρήνησ ἐρῶν, στυγῶν μὲν ἄστυ τὸν δ’ ἐμὸν δῆμον ποθῶν, ὃσ οὐδεπώποτ’ εἶπεν, ἄνθρακασ πρίω, οὐκ ὄξοσ οὐκ ἔλαιον, οὐδ’ ᾔδει "πρίω," ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ ἔφερε πάντα χὠ πρίων ἀπῆν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 1:16)
- "γράφω τοίνυν ἃ εἶδον, οὐχ ἃ ἤκουσα. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 292)
- ἀπολῶ σε καὶ γράφω σε μυρίασ δραχμάσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:33)
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 )
