Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κατέρχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατέρχομαι κατελεύσομαι κατῆλθον

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

Etym.: fut. kateleu/somai, but in good attic ka/teimi

Sense

  1. to go down from, to go down to the grave
  2. descending, comes down
  3. to come back, return, to come back from exile, to be brought back by

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

  • καὶ πάλιν κατέρχεσθαι καὶ τοῦτο δὶσ ἢ τρὶσ γενέσθαι τέλοσ δὲ τοὺσ μὲν κάτωθεν ἀνενεγκεῖν ὥσπερ λύτρα τοῦ νεκροῦ σκώληκα, τοὺσ δ’ ἐκεῖνον ἀραμένουσ ἀποδόντασ δὲ τὸν νεκρὸν οἴχεσθαι. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 11 3:1)
  • ὁ δὲ θεὸσ ἔφησε περιμείναντασ τὸν τρίτον καρπὸν κατέρχεσθαι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 8 2:8)
  • Καὶ Καυκαίουσ δὲ παροδεύων, ἐσ οὓσ παρεσπόνδησε Λεύκολλοσ, ἐκήρυξε Καυκαίουσ ἐπὶ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἀκινδύνωσ κατέρχεσθαι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 6:1)
  • ὅσοι δὲ Ἑλλήνων ἢ Αἰγυπτίων ἐσ Αἰθιοπίαν <τὴν> ὑπὲρ Συήνησ καὶ ἐσ Μερόην Αἰθιόπων πόλιν ἀναβεβήκασι, λέγουσιν οὗτοι τὸν Νεῖλον, ἐσιόντα ἐσ λίμνην καὶ δι’ αὐτῆσ διεξιόντα ὥσπερ ἐκ χέρσου, μετὰ τοῦτο ἤδη δι’ Αἰθιοπίασ τῆσ κάτω καὶ ἐσ Αἴγυπτον ῥεύσαντα ἐπὶ Φάρον καὶ τὴν ταύτῃ θάλασσαν κατέρχεσθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. to go down from

  2. descending

  3. to come back

Derived

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

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