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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

  • κἀν τοῖσ προθύροισ καλινδοῦνται, πλείω τοῖσ θυρωροῖσ συνόντεσ ἢ τοῖσ δεσπόταισ αὐτῶν, ἀναιδείᾳ τὴν κολακείαν ἐπανορθούμενοι, ἐν τοῦτο σύμβολον κεκτημένοι τοῦ μὴ πρὸσ χάριν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ ὁμιλεῖν, ὅτι πάντ’ ἀποκναίουσιν ἀηδίᾳ λιπαροῦντεσ, ὁρώμενοι πρῶτον ῥᾷον αἰτοῦντεσ τὰ μὴ προσήκοντα ἢ ἕτεροι τὰ γιγνόμεν’ αὑτοῖσ ἀπαιτοῦντεσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 193:5)

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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