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.
- καὶ πότερόν ἐστι δικαιότερον, ἂν ταῦτα δόξῃ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ Ἀθηναίοισ, εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον ὑπάρχειν μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων καὶ τὸ παρὰ σοῦ χρυσίον, ἢ τοὺσ μὲν ἄλλουσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων κτημάτων ἕκαστον εἰσφέρειν, καὶ καταχωνεύειν τὸν ἴδιον κόσμον τῶν γυναικῶν, καὶ τὰ ἐκπώματα, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ἀναθήματα τῶν θεῶν, ὥσπερ ἔφησθα σὺ γράψειν, αὐτὸσ εἰσενεγκὼν πεντήκοντα δραχμὰσ ἀπὸ τῆσ οἰκίασ τῆσ ἐν Πειραιεῖ, καὶ τῆσ ἐν ἄστει; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 83:2)
- ἐγὼ δὲ περὶ μὲν τούτων ἔφην ἄμεινον σκέψασθαι τὸν Δία, περὶ δὲ τῶν παρόντων καὶ ὧν ἀδικεῖσθαι ᾤοντο κατὰ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἑώρων ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ καθήκουσαν τὴν κρίσιν, καὶ ὑπεσχόμην γράψειν πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 1:4)
- τὰ δ̓ ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ πραχθησόμενα ὑπέσχετο ἤδη γράψειν καὶ τὸν περίπλουν τῆσ ἔξω θαλάττησ, καὶ οὐχ ὑπόσχεσισ ταῦτα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ προοίμιον τῆσ Ἰνδικῆσ ἤδη συντέτακται, καὶ τὸ τρίτον τάγμα καὶ οἱ Κελτοὶ καὶ Μαύρων μοῖρα ὀλίγη σὺν Κασσίῳ πάντεσ οὗτοι ἐπεραιώθησαν τὸν Ἰνδὸν ποταμόν· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 31 1:5)
- εἶτ’ εἰσ νέωτά φησι γράψειν κρεμαμένουσ, καὶ θᾶττον ἀποπέμψουσι τοὺσ ὠνουμένουσ ἀπὸ μηχανῆσ πωλοῦντεσ ὥσπερ οἱ θεοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 8 2:1)
- ἔπειτα δὲ δοὺσ ἐξουσίαν αὑτῷ διὰ τοῦ φάναι γράψειν τὰ μυθευόμενα καὶ λεγόμενα περὶ τῶν Ιοὐδαίων λόγουσ ἀπιθάνουσ παρενέβαλεν, ἀναμῖξαι βουλόμενοσ ἡμῖν πλῆθοσ Αἰγυπτίων λεπρῶν καὶ ἐπὶ ἄλλοισ ἀρρωστήμασιν, ὥσ φησι, φυγεῖν ἐκ τῆσ Αἰγύπτου καταγνωσθέντων. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 255:2)
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 )
