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κυέω

ε-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυέω

Structure: κυέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to bear in the womb, to be pregnant with
  2. to be pregnant, be with child

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κύω κύεις κύει
Dual κύειτον κύειτον
Plural κύουμεν κύειτε κύουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular κύω κύῃς κύῃ
Dual κύητον κύητον
Plural κύωμεν κύητε κύωσιν*
OptativeSingular κύοιμι κύοις κύοι
Dual κύοιτον κυοίτην
Plural κύοιμεν κύοιτε κύοιεν
ImperativeSingular κῦει κυεῖτω
Dual κύειτον κυεῖτων
Plural κύειτε κυοῦντων, κυεῖτωσαν
Infinitive κύειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κυων κυουντος κυουσα κυουσης κυουν κυουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κύουμαι κύει, κύῃ κύειται
Dual κύεισθον κύεισθον
Plural κυοῦμεθα κύεισθε κύουνται
SubjunctiveSingular κύωμαι κύῃ κύηται
Dual κύησθον κύησθον
Plural κυώμεθα κύησθε κύωνται
OptativeSingular κυοίμην κύοιο κύοιτο
Dual κύοισθον κυοίσθην
Plural κυοίμεθα κύοισθε κύοιντο
ImperativeSingular κύου κυεῖσθω
Dual κύεισθον κυεῖσθων
Plural κύεισθε κυεῖσθων, κυεῖσθωσαν
Infinitive κύεισθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κυουμενος κυουμενου κυουμενη κυουμενης κυουμενον κυουμενου

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 κυῶ γε νὴ Δία. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode 1:4)
  • Ἑταίρασ εἰπούσησ πρὸσ αὐτόν, "ἐκ σοῦ κυῶ," "οὐ μᾶλλον," ἔφη, "γινώσκεισ ἢ εἰ δι’ ὁλοσχοίνων ἰοῦσα ἔφασκεσ ὑπὸ τοῦδε κεκεντῆσθαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. h'. ARISTIPPOS 17:1)
  • οἱ τοσοῦτοι δὲ ὁρ́κοι οὓσ ὤμοσασ καὶ τὰ δάκρυα ἐν ἀκαρεῖ πάντα οἴχεται, καὶ ἐπιλέλησαι Μυρτίου νῦν, καὶ ταῦτα, ὦ Πάμφιλε, ὁπότε κύω μῆνα ὄγδοον ἤδη. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:2)
  • κύω γὰρ, ὦ γυναῖκεσ, ἀλλ’ αἰδοῖ, φίλαι, ἐν γράμμασι σφῷν τοὔνομ’ ἐξερῶ βρέφουσ, ὀρθὴ μακρὰ γραμμὴ ’ στιν ἐκ δ’ αὐτῆσ μέσησ μικρὰ παρεστῶσ1’ ἑκατέρωθεν ὑπτία, ἔπειτα κύκλοσ πόδασ ἔχων βραχεῖσ δύο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 802)

Synonyms

  1. to bear in the womb

  2. to be pregnant

Derived

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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