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κηρόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηρόομαι

Structure: κηρό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: khro/s

Sense

  1. to form for oneself of wax

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κήρουμαι κήροι κήρουται
Dual κήρουσθον κήρουσθον
Plural κηροῦμεθα κήρουσθε κήρουνται
SubjunctiveSingular κήρωμαι κήροι κήρωται
Dual κήρωσθον κήρωσθον
Plural κηρώμεθα κήρωσθε κήρωνται
OptativeSingular κηροίμην κήροιο κήροιτο
Dual κήροισθον κηροίσθην
Plural κηροίμεθα κήροισθε κήροιντο
ImperativeSingular κήρου κηροῦσθω
Dual κήρουσθον κηροῦσθων
Plural κήρουσθε κηροῦσθων, κηροῦσθωσαν
Infinitive κήρουσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κηρουμενος κηρουμενου κηρουμενη κηρουμενης κηρουμενον κηρουμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐκηροῦμην ἐκήρου ἐκήρουτο
Dual ἐκήρουσθον ἐκηροῦσθην
Plural ἐκηροῦμεθα ἐκήρουσθε ἐκήρουντο

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

  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ κηροῖο μέγαν τροχὸν ὀξέι χαλκῷ τυτθὰ διατμήξασ χερσὶ στιβαρῇσι πίεζον· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 18:6)

Synonyms

  1. to form for oneself of wax

Derived

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

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