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καθάλλομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθάλλομαι καθαλοῦμαι καθηλάμην

Structure: κατ (Prefix) + ά̔λλ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to leap down, to rush down

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

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

  • ἤδη δὲ καταβελὴσ ὢν καὶ τραυμάτων πλῆθοσ ἐν πολλοῖσ μέρεσι τοῦ σώματοσ ἔχων, μίαν δὲ πληγὴν λόγχησ, ἣ διὰ θατέρου τῶν γλουτῶν ὑπὲρ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ μηροῦ ἀντία ἐνεχθεῖσα ἐκάκωσεν αὐτὸν ὀδύναισ καὶ τὴν βάσιν ἔβλαπτεν, ἐπειδὴ τῶν κατόπιν ἤκουσεν ἐμβοησάντων λελύσθαι τῆσ γεφύρασ τὸ πλέον μέροσ, καθάλλεται σὺν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ εἰσ τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ διανηξάμενοσ τὸ ῥεῦμα χαλεπῶσ πάνυ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 24 5:3)
  • ὁ δὲ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἁλισκομένησ δαιμονίῳ τινὶ συνεργίᾳ χρησάμενοσ μέσον μὲν ἑαυτὸν ἐκκλέπτει τῶν πολεμίων, καθάλλεται δὲ εἴσ τινα βαθὺν λάκκον, ᾧ πλατὺ σπήλαιον διέζευκτο κατὰ πλευρὰν τοῖσ ἄνωθεν ἀόρατον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 411:1)
  • κἀκεῖνοσ ὡσ ἔγνω κατακλειόμενον αὑτὸν εἰσ δυσχωρίασ, ἔνθα οὐκ ἦν δυνατὸν ἀνὰ κράτοσ ἐλάσαι τὸν ἵππον, καθάλλεταί τε καὶ στὰσ ἐπὶ τὸν ὄχθον, ἵνα μὴ κυκλωθείη πρὸσ αὐτῶν, τὸν ὑπασπιστὴν μόνον ἔχων τοὺσ ἐπιόντασ ὑπέμεινεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 26 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. to leap down

Derived

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

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