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καταπέτομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταπέτομαι καταπτήσομαι

Structure: κατα (Prefix) + πέτ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fly down

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

  • οὐ μὴν οὐδ̓ ἐκεῖνο μαντείασ δεῖται, ὡσ ἢν μὴ καλύψαισ τὰ σπέρματα καὶ θεράπων μακέλλην ἔχων ἐπιφοροίη τῆσ γῆσ αὐτοῖσ, καταπτήσεται τὰ ὄρνεα καὶ προκατεδεῖται τὴν ἅπασαν τοῦ θέρουσ ἐλπίδα. (Lucian, 12:2)
  • καταπτήσεται δὲ ἤδη καὶ ὁ ἀετὸσ ἀποκερῶν τὸ ἧπαρ, ὡσ πάντα ἔχοισ ἀντὶ τῆσ καλῆσ καὶ εὐμηχάνου πλαστικῆσ. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 2:7)

Synonyms

  1. to fly 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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