Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

καθηγέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καθηγέομαι καθηγήσομαι

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

Sense

  1. to go before, act as guide, lead the way, the guides, to guide
  2. to go before and teach, to explain, expound
  3. to begin
  4. to be the first to do, to establish, institute, I will, begin

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect 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

  • ἐκεῖθεν δὲ πρὸσ Φίλιππον ᾤχετο κατὰ Πυθόδοτον ἄρχοντα, καὶ διέτριψε χρόνον ὀκταετῆ παρ’ αὐτῷ καθηγούμενοσ Ἀλεξάνδρου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 5 1:3)
  • ἔτι δὲ σὺ μὲν ἐμὲ τιμῶν καὶ τούτου καθηγούμενοσ φιλοσοφίαν δόξεισ τιμᾶν, καὶ αὐτὸ τοῦτο, ὅτι διεσκόπεισ καὶ ἄλλουσ, πρὸσ πολλῶν εὐδοξίαν σοι οἴσει ὡσ φιλοσόφῳ ὄντι. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 16:1)
  • ὁ τὸν ποταμὸν καθηγούμενοσ, ὦ Θεαίτητε, ἔφη ἄρα δείξειν αὐτό· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 355:6)
  • ὑπακουσάντων δ’ εὐδὺσ αὐτὸσ καθηγούμενοσ ἐπέθετο τῷ λιμένι καὶ διὰ τὴν ἀπουσίαν τοῦ Θίβρωνοσ ῥᾳδίωσ ἐγκρατὴσ γενόμενοσ τὰ περιλειπόμενα τῶν φορτίων ἀποκατέστησε τοῖσ ἐμπόροισ καὶ τὸν λιμένα φιλοτίμωσ ἐτήρει. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 20 5:1)
  • καθηγούμενοσ δὲ τοῦ συντάγματοσ, καὶ πρῶτοσ ἀκοντίσασ, ἔβαλε τὸν ἡγούμενον τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xv, chapter 84 19:3)

Synonyms

  1. to go before

  2. to go before and teach

  3. to begin

  4. to be the first to do

Derived

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

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