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κομάω

α-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κομάω

Structure: κομά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: ko/mh

Sense

  1. to let the hair grow long, wear long hair
  2. to plume oneself, give oneself airs, be proud or haughty, he aimed at, do you plume yourself?
  3. decked

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κομῶ κομᾷς κομᾷ
Dual κομᾶτον κομᾶτον
Plural κομῶμεν κομᾶτε κομῶσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular κομῶ κομῇς κομῇ
Dual κομῆτον κομῆτον
Plural κομῶμεν κομῆτε κομῶσιν*
OptativeSingular κομῷμι κομῷς κομῷ
Dual κομῷτον κομῴτην
Plural κομῷμεν κομῷτε κομῷεν
ImperativeSingular κόμᾱ κομᾱ́τω
Dual κομᾶτον κομᾱ́των
Plural κομᾶτε κομώντων, κομᾱ́τωσαν
Infinitive κομᾶν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κομων κομωντος κομωσα κομωσης κομων κομωντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κομῶμαι κομᾷ κομᾶται
Dual κομᾶσθον κομᾶσθον
Plural κομώμεθα κομᾶσθε κομῶνται
SubjunctiveSingular κομῶμαι κομῇ κομῆται
Dual κομῆσθον κομῆσθον
Plural κομώμεθα κομῆσθε κομῶνται
OptativeSingular κομῴμην κομῷο κομῷτο
Dual κομῷσθον κομῴσθην
Plural κομῴμεθα κομῷσθε κομῷντο
ImperativeSingular κομῶ κομᾱ́σθω
Dual κομᾶσθον κομᾱ́σθων
Plural κομᾶσθε κομᾱ́σθων, κομᾱ́σθωσαν
Infinitive κομᾶσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κομωμενος κομωμενου κομωμενη κομωμενης κομωμενον κομωμενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐκόμων ἐκόμᾱς ἐκόμᾱν*
Dual ἐκομᾶτον ἐκομᾱ́την
Plural ἐκομῶμεν ἐκομᾶτε ἐκόμων
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐκομώμην ἐκομῶ ἐκομᾶτο
Dual ἐκομᾶσθον ἐκομᾱ́σθην
Plural ἐκομώμεθα ἐκομᾶσθε ἐκομῶντο

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

  • πρὶν μὲν γὰρ οἰκίσαι σε τήνδε τὴν πόλιν, ἐλακωνομάνουν ἅπαντεσ ἄνθρωποι τότε, ἐκόμων ἐπείνων ἐρρύπων ἐσωκράτουν σκυτάλι’ ἐφόρουν, νυνὶ δ’ ὑποστρέψαντεσ αὖ ὀρνιθομανοῦσι, πάντα δ’ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἡδονῆσ ποιοῦσιν ἅπερ ὄρνιθεσ ἐκμιμούμενοι· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 19)
  • καὶ μὴν καὶ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ἐκόμων ἕλιξί τε καὶ φύλλοισ καὶ βότρυσι. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 8:4)
  • προελθὼν δὲ καὶ προβὰσ πάνυ χαλεπῶσ πρόσ τι ὑψηλὸν τούσ τε κύνασ ὁρῶ ἠπορημένουσ καὶ διαθέοντασ, ὑφ’ ὧνεἴκαζον ἀποβιασθὲν τὸ ζῷον ἁλέσθαι κατὰ τοῦ κρημνοῦ, καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγον ἄνδρα, κυνηγέτην ἀπὸ τῆσ ὄψεωσ καὶ τῆσ στολῆσ, τὰ γένεια ὑγιῆ κομῶντα οὐ φαύλωσ οὐδὲ ἀγεννῶσ ἐξόπισθεν, οἱούσ ἐπὶ Ἴλιον Ὅμηρόσ φησιν ἐλθεῖν Εὐβοέασ, σκώπτων, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν, καὶ καταγελῶν, ὅτι τῶν ἄλλων Ἀχαιῶν καλῶσ ἐχόντων οἱ δὲ ἐξ ἡμίσουσ ἐκόμων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. decked

Similar forms

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

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