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ἡσσάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡσσάομαι

Structure: ἡσσά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Note that middle forms such as h(tth/somai can have passive sense.

Sense

  1. to be less than another, inferior to, to yield to the power of, he had proved inferior
  2. to be defeated, discomfited, worsted, beaten
  3. to give way, yield, to be a slave to, to be overcome by

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ή̔σσωμαι ή̔σσᾳ ή̔σσᾱται
Dual ή̔σσᾱσθον ή̔σσᾱσθον
Plural ἡσσῶμεθα ή̔σσᾱσθε ή̔σσωνται
SubjunctiveSingular ή̔σσωμαι ή̔σσῃ ή̔σσηται
Dual ή̔σσησθον ή̔σσησθον
Plural ἡσσώμεθα ή̔σσησθε ή̔σσωνται
OptativeSingular ἡσσῷμην ή̔σσῳο ή̔σσῳτο
Dual ή̔σσῳσθον ἡσσῷσθην
Plural ἡσσῷμεθα ή̔σσῳσθε ή̔σσῳντο
ImperativeSingular ή̔σσω ἡσσᾶσθω
Dual ή̔σσᾱσθον ἡσσᾶσθων
Plural ή̔σσᾱσθε ἡσσᾶσθων, ἡσσᾶσθωσαν
Infinitive ή̔σσᾱσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἡσσωμενος ἡσσωμενου ἡσσωμενη ἡσσωμενης ἡσσωμενον ἡσσωμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἡσσώμην ἡσσῶ ἡσσᾶτο
Dual ἡσσᾶσθον ἡσσᾱ́σθην
Plural ἡσσώμεθα ἡσσᾶσθε ἡσσῶντο

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.

Examples

  • Πολλῷ μέντοι ἡσσᾶται καὶ αὕτη ἡ μελέτη τῆσ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τοῖσιν ὀθονίοισιν ἐπιδέσιοσ‧ κεῖνοσ μὲν γὰρ ὁ τρόποσ ἑβδομαίουσ ἐόντασ ἀφλεγμάντουσ ἀποδείκνυσι, καὶ παρασκευάζει νάρθηξι τελέωσ ἐπιδεῖν‧ οὗτοσ δὲ ὁ τρόποσ πουλὺ ὑστερεῖ, βλάβασ δέ τινασ καὶ ἄλλασ ἔχει, ἀλλὰ μακρὸν ἂν εἰή πάντα γράφειν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 31.10)

Synonyms

  1. to give way

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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