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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

  • οὔ τἄρ’ ἔτ’ ὀρθῶσ Καπανέωσ κεραύνιον δέμασ καπνοῦται, κλιμάκων ὀρθοστάτασ ὃσ προσβαλὼν πύλῃσιν ὤμοσεν πόλιν πέρσειν θεοῦ θέλοντοσ ἤν τε μὴ θέλῃ; (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 4:2)
  • ἣ νῦν καπνοῦται καὶ πρὸσ Ἀργείου δορὸσ ὄλωλε πορθηθεῖσ’· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 1:3)
  • οἰκτρὰ τύχα πόλεοσ, ἃ καπνοῦται. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 15)

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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