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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

  • καὶ παρ’ ἡμῶν μὲν ἀνίπταται καθάπερ ἐκ δεσμωτηρίου τινὸσ ἀποδιδράσκων ἐπειδὰν δὲ καιρὸσ κατιέναι, σχολῇ καὶ βάδην μόγισ ποτὲ κατέρχεται. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 2:5)
  • φέρουσι δὲ οὐκ ἱρέεσ μοῦνον, ἀλλὰ πᾶσα Συρίη καὶ Ἀραβίη, καὶ πέρηθεν τοῦ Εὐφρήτεω πολλοὶ ἄνθρωποι ἐσ θάλασσαν ἔρχονται καὶ πάντεσ ὕδωρ φέρουσιν, τὸ πρῶτα μὲν ἐν τῷ νηῷ ἐκχέουσι, μετὰ δὲ ἐσ τὸ χάσμα κατέρχεται, καὶ δέκεται τὸ χάσμα μικρὸν ἐὸν ὕδατοσ χρῆμα πολλόν. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 13:8)
  • γίγνονται δὲ αὐτόθι καὶ πανηγύριέσ τε μέγισται, καλέονται δὲ ἐσ τὴν λίμνην καταβάσιεσ, ὅτι ἐν αὐτῇσι ἐσ τὴν λίμνην τὰ ἱρὰ πάντα κατέρχεται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 47:1)
  • ὅθεν νόμοισι τοῖσιν ἥδεται θεὰ Ἄρτεμισ, ἑορτῆσ, τοὔνομ’ ἧσ καλὸν μόνον ‐ τὰ δ’ ἄλλα σιγῶ, τὴν θεὸν φοβουμένη ‐ θύω γὰρ ὄντοσ τοῦ νόμου καὶ πρὶν πόλει, ὃσ ἂν κατέλθῃ τήνδε γῆν Ἕλλην ἀνήρ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 1:13)
  • ἥκω γὰρ ἐσ γῆν τήνδε καὶ κατέρχομαι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene9)
  • ἥκω γὰρ ἐσ γῆν τήνδε καὶ κατέρχομαι ‐ δὶσ ταὐτὸν ἡμῖν εἶπεν ὁ σοφὸσ Αἰσχύλοσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene33)
  • ἥκω γὰρ ἐσ γῆν, φησί, καὶ κατέρχομαι· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene37)
  • ἥκω δὲ ταὐτόν ἐστι τῷ κατέρχομαι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene38)
  • ἥκω γὰρ ἐσ γῆν τήνδε καὶ κατέρχομαι. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:2)

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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