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καθαιρέω

ε-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθαιρέω καθαιρήσω καθεῖλον καθῄρημαι

Structure: κατ (Prefix) + αἱρέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take down, we lowered, to take, down, to take down one's
  2. to put down or close
  3. to bring down
  4. swallow
  5. to put down by force, destroy, to kill, slay
  6. to put down, reduce, to depose, dethrone, to remove, utterly
  7. to rase to the ground, pull down
  8. to cancel, rescind
  9. to condemn
  10. to reduce
  11. to overpower, seize, to catch, to seize by
  12. to fetch down as a reward or prize, to achieve
  13. to take and carry off, seize

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular καθαίρω καθαίρεις καθαίρει
Dual καθαίρειτον καθαίρειτον
Plural καθαίρουμεν καθαίρειτε καθαίρουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular καθαίρω καθαίρῃς καθαίρῃ
Dual καθαίρητον καθαίρητον
Plural καθαίρωμεν καθαίρητε καθαίρωσιν*
OptativeSingular καθαίροιμι καθαίροις καθαίροι
Dual καθαίροιτον καθαιροίτην
Plural καθαίροιμεν καθαίροιτε καθαίροιεν
ImperativeSingular καθαῖρει καθαιρεῖτω
Dual καθαίρειτον καθαιρεῖτων
Plural καθαίρειτε καθαιροῦντων, καθαιρεῖτωσαν
Infinitive καθαίρειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
καθαιρων καθαιρουντος καθαιρουσα καθαιρουσης καθαιρουν καθαιρουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular καθαίρουμαι καθαίρει, καθαίρῃ καθαίρειται
Dual καθαίρεισθον καθαίρεισθον
Plural καθαιροῦμεθα καθαίρεισθε καθαίρουνται
SubjunctiveSingular καθαίρωμαι καθαίρῃ καθαίρηται
Dual καθαίρησθον καθαίρησθον
Plural καθαιρώμεθα καθαίρησθε καθαίρωνται
OptativeSingular καθαιροίμην καθαίροιο καθαίροιτο
Dual καθαίροισθον καθαιροίσθην
Plural καθαιροίμεθα καθαίροισθε καθαίροιντο
ImperativeSingular καθαίρου καθαιρεῖσθω
Dual καθαίρεισθον καθαιρεῖσθων
Plural καθαίρεισθε καθαιρεῖσθων, καθαιρεῖσθωσαν
Infinitive καθαίρεισθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
καθαιρουμενος καθαιρουμενου καθαιρουμενη καθαιρουμενης καθαιρουμενον καθαιρουμενου

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • ἐν δεξιᾷ μὲν οὖν εἰσιόντι Ἀργολικῷ μύθῳ ἀναμέμικται πάθοσ Αἰθιοπικὸν ὁ Περσεὺσ τὸ κῆτοσ φονεύει καὶ τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν καθαιρεῖ, καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν γαμήσει καὶ ἄπεισιν αὐτὴν ἄγων πάρεργον τοῦτο τῆσ ἐπὶ Γοργόνασ πτήσεωσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 22:1)
  • ὡσ καὶ Ἀφροδίτη κάλλει τὰ πρόσωπα καθαίρει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 331)
  • ἀτελεῖσ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ ἠπειρωτικοὺσ πολέμουσ καταλιπὼν Σικελίασ ἅπτεται πάλιν, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο Δῆλον καθαίρει καὶ τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν Ἄργοσ πολεμούμενον ὑπὸ Ἀμπρακιωτῶν καταλείπει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 9 4:4)
  • εἶτα πιστεύειν ἄξιον τούτῳ γράφοντι περὶ ἀνδρὸσ ἢ πόλεωσ μιᾶσ, ὃσ ἑνὶ ῥήματι τὸ νίκημα τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἀφαιρεῖται καὶ τὸ τρόπαιον καθαιρεῖ καὶ τὰσ ἐπιγραφάσ, ἃσ ἔθεντο παρὰ τῇ Ἀρτέμιδι τῇ Προσηῴᾳ, κόμπον ἀποφαίνει καὶ ἀλαζονείαν; (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 34 12:1)
  • καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐνίκα, κἀμὲ τὸν δυσδαίμονα πάλοσ καθαιρεῖ τοῦτο τἀγαθὸν λαβεῖν. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 2:23)

Synonyms

  1. to take down

  2. to put down or close

  3. to bring down

  4. swallow

  5. to put down by force

  6. to put down

  7. to rase to the ground

  8. to condemn

  9. to reduce

  10. to overpower

  11. to take and carry off

Derived

Similar forms

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

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