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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

  • κατὰ μὲν οὖν τὸ τεῖχοσ οὐδέν, καίπερ ἐπιχειρῶν, ἤνυεν, ἐσ δέ τινοσ ἰδιώτου πύργον ἔρημον, ἐκτὸσ ὄντα τοῦ τείχουσ καὶ τὸ ὕψοσ ἴσον ὄντα τῷ τείχει, νεανίασ ἀνεβίβασεν εὐτόλμουσ, οἳ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τῶν τειχῶν ἀκοντίοισ ἀνέστελλον, ξύλα τε καὶ σανίδασ ἐσ τὸ διάστημα ἐπιθέντεσ καὶ δι’ αὐτῶν ἐσ τὰ τείχη διαδραμόντεσ καθήλαντο ἐσ τὰ Μέγαρα, καὶ πυλίδα κόψαντεσ ἐδέχοντο τὸν Σκιπίωνα. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 18 1:6)
  • ἀδιεξόδου δ’ ὄντοσ τοῦ χωρίου προσέπταιον ἀλλήλοισ ἀναστρεφόμενοι, μέχρι καθήλαντο κατὰ τῶν κρημνῶν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 4:5)

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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