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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

  • οὐ γὰρ μόνον νῦν οἱ φεύγοντεσ κατέρχονται, ὅταν ὁ ἐγκαταλιπὼν τὴν πόλιν καὶ φυγὴν αὐτὸσ ἑαυτοῦ καταγνοὺσ καὶ οἰκήσασ ἐν Μεγάροισ ἐπὶ προστάτου πλείω πέντ’ ἢ ἓξ ἔτη ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ καὶ ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀναστρέφηται, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ μηλόβοτον τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἀνεῖναι φανερᾷ τῇ ψήφῳ καταψηφισάμενοσ, οὗτοσ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ χώρᾳ σύνοικοσ ὑμῶν γίγνεται. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 202:2)
  • αὖθισ δέ, ὅτε Ἡρακλῆσ Ἱπποκόωντα καὶ τοὺσ τούτου παῖδασ ἀπέκτεινε, κατέρχονται, καὶ παραλαμβάνει Τυνδάρεωσ τὴν βασιλείαν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 6:5)
  • αὗται δὲ εἰσ Τροίαν ἀφικόμεναι, διωκόμεναι παρὰ τῶν ἐγχωρίων εἰσ τὸ ἱερὸν κατέρχονται· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 34:1)
  • Ψήφισμα ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν τοῦτο τὸ ψήφισμα ἐψηφίσθη, κατέρχονται ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀγόρατον εἰσ τὸν Πειραιᾶ οἱ αἱρεθέντεσ τῶν βουλευτῶν, καὶ περιτυχόντεσ αὐτῷ ἐν ἀγορᾷ ἐζήτουν ἄγειν. (Lysias, Speeches, 24:3)
  • ποταμοὶ δὲ ἐκ τῶν ὀρῶν κατέρχονται <τῶν> ὑπὲρ τὴν Πελλήνην, πρὸσ μὲν Αἰγείρασ καλούμενοσ Κριόσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 15:3)
  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ τόδε μοι εἰπέ, καὶ κατέρχονταί ποτε ἐκ τῆσ ἄκρασ, ἢν ἐθελήσωσι, χρησόμενοι τοῖσ κάτω ἃ καταλελοίπασιν, ἢ ἀνάγκη ἅπαξ ἀνελθόντασ αὐτοὺσ μένειν καὶ συνεῖναι τῇ ἀρετῇ πλούτου καὶ δόξησ καὶ ἡδονῶν καταγελῶντασ; (Lucian, 17:2)

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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