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.
- λόγουσ γὰρ αὐτὰ νομίζουσιν εἶναι κατὰ τὴν τῶν γραψάντων βούλησιν ἐσχεδιασμένουσ, καὶ τοῦτο δικαίωσ καὶ περὶ τῶν παλαιοτέρων φρονοῦσιν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ τῶν νῦν ἐνίουσ ὁρῶσι τολμῶντασ περὶ τούτων συγγράφειν, οἷσ μήτ’ αὐτοὶ παρεγένοντο μήτε πυθέσθαι παρὰ τῶν εἰδότων ἐφιλοτιμήθησαν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 53:1)
- διὸ καὶ Σιμωνίδησ ἀναθέντων τῶν Κορινθίων πίνακα τῇ θεῷ τὸν ἔτι καὶ νῦν διαμένοντα καὶ τὰσ ἑταίρασ ἰδίᾳ γραψάντων τὰσ τότε ποιησαμένασ τὴν ἱκετείαν καὶ ὕστερον παρούσασ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ συνέθηκε τόδε τὸ ἐπίγραμμα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 32 1:4)
- 858δ Τυρταῖοσ Λακεδαιμονίων μελλόντων παρατάττεσθαι Μεσσηνίοισ καὶ βεβουλευμένων νικᾶν ἢ ἀποθανεῖν ἐν τῇ μάχῃ, ἵνα δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκείων ἐν τῇ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναιρέσει γνωρίζοιτο ἕκαστοσ, ἐπὶ τὰσ σκυταλίδασ τοὔνομα γραψάντων καὶ περὶ τῇ λαιᾷ χειρὶ φερόντων, βουλόμενοσ ἐκπλῆξαι τοὺσ Μεσσηνίουσ τοῦτο μαθόντασ παρήγγειλε μὴ παρατηρεῖν τοὺσ αὐτομολοῦντασ Εἵλωτασ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section57)
- παραπλησίωσ δὲ τούτοισ καὶ τῶν ὕστερόν τινεσ γραψάντων ἀπεφήναντο τὴν αὐτὴν δόξαν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 243:1)
- Ἑλληνικῷ τε μύθῳ χρησάμενοι οὐδένα τῶν τὰ Ἑλληνικὰ γραψάντων βεβαιωτὴν παρέσχοντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 11 1:3)
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 )
