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καπνόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καπνόομαι

Structure: καπνό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from kapno/s

Sense

  1. to be turned into smoke, burnt to ashes

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular καπνοῦμαι καπνοῖ καπνοῦται
Dual καπνοῦσθον καπνοῦσθον
Plural καπνούμεθα καπνοῦσθε καπνοῦνται
SubjunctiveSingular καπνῶμαι καπνοῖ καπνῶται
Dual καπνῶσθον καπνῶσθον
Plural καπνώμεθα καπνῶσθε καπνῶνται
OptativeSingular καπνοίμην καπνοῖο καπνοῖτο
Dual καπνοῖσθον καπνοίσθην
Plural καπνοίμεθα καπνοῖσθε καπνοῖντο
ImperativeSingular καπνοῦ καπνούσθω
Dual καπνοῦσθον καπνούσθων
Plural καπνοῦσθε καπνούσθων, καπνούσθωσαν
Infinitive καπνοῦσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
καπνουμενος καπνουμενου καπνουμενη καπνουμενης καπνουμενον καπνουμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐκαπνούμην ἐκαπνοῦ ἐκαπνοῦτο
Dual ἐκαπνοῦσθον ἐκαπνούσθην
Plural ἐκαπνούμεθα ἐκαπνοῦσθε ἐκαπνοῦντο

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

  • ὠκύμοροι καπνοῖο δίκην ἀρθέντεσ ἀπέπταν, καὶ νῦν ὥσπερ ἀγώγιμοι δραπέται τῶν ἱερῶν καὶ τῶν βωμῶν ἀποσπασθέντεσ οὐδὲν ἀλλ’ ἢ τὰ μνήματα καὶ τοὺσ τάφουσ ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 24 4:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτε τυφομένησ ὕλησ ὕπερ αἰθαλόεσσαι καπνοῖο στροφάλιγγεσ ἀπείριτοι εἱλίσσονται, ἄλλη δ’ αἶψ’ ἑτέρῃ ἐπιτέλλεται αἰὲν ἐπιπρὸ νειόθεν εἰλίγγοισιν ἐπήοροσ ἐξανιοῦσα· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:11)

Synonyms

  1. to be turned into smoke

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

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