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καλινδέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλινδέομαι

Structure: καλινδέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: only in pres. and imperf.

Sense

  1. to lie rolling about or wallowing, to be constantly engaged in

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • ἐπειδὴ τοιαῦτ’ ἀφέστηκεν, ἀπολαῦσαι τοῦ βίου τὰ κάλλιστα, ἑώσ ἔξεστιν, ἵν’ εἰ μὲν τῆσ σωζομένησ μοίρασ εἰήμεν, ἐν τοῖσ καλλίστοισ σωζοίμεθα, ἐν μαθήμασι καὶ λόγοισ, καὶ μὴ τὴν ὑειόν ἁρμονίαν ἡρμοσμένοι νύκτα ἐκ νυκτὸσ καὶ ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρασ καλινδοίμεθα, εἰ δὲ μὴ, κέρδοσ γ’ ᾖ πᾶν ὅ τί τισ προὔλαβεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:8)

Synonyms

  1. to lie rolling about or wallowing

Derived

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

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