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κωκύω

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωκύω

Structure: κωκύ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to shriek, cry, wail
  2. to wail over

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κωκύω κωκύεις κωκύει
Dual κωκύετον κωκύετον
Plural κωκύομεν κωκύετε κωκύουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular κωκύω κωκύῃς κωκύῃ
Dual κωκύητον κωκύητον
Plural κωκύωμεν κωκύητε κωκύωσιν*
OptativeSingular κωκύοιμι κωκύοις κωκύοι
Dual κωκύοιτον κωκυοίτην
Plural κωκύοιμεν κωκύοιτε κωκύοιεν
ImperativeSingular κώκυε κωκυέτω
Dual κωκύετον κωκυέτων
Plural κωκύετε κωκυόντων, κωκυέτωσαν
Infinitive κωκύειν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κωκυων κωκυοντος κωκυουσα κωκυουσης κωκυον κωκυοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κωκύομαι κωκύει, κωκύῃ κωκύεται
Dual κωκύεσθον κωκύεσθον
Plural κωκυόμεθα κωκύεσθε κωκύονται
SubjunctiveSingular κωκύωμαι κωκύῃ κωκύηται
Dual κωκύησθον κωκύησθον
Plural κωκυώμεθα κωκύησθε κωκύωνται
OptativeSingular κωκυοίμην κωκύοιο κωκύοιτο
Dual κωκύοισθον κωκυοίσθην
Plural κωκυοίμεθα κωκύοισθε κωκύοιντο
ImperativeSingular κωκύου κωκυέσθω
Dual κωκύεσθον κωκυέσθων
Plural κωκύεσθε κωκυέσθων, κωκυέσθωσαν
Infinitive κωκύεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κωκυομενος κωκυομενου κωκυομενη κωκυομενης κωκυομενον κωκυομενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐκώκυον ἐκώκυες ἐκώκυεν*
Dual ἐκωκύετον ἐκωκυέτην
Plural ἐκωκύομεν ἐκωκύετε ἐκώκυον
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐκωκυόμην ἐκωκύου ἐκωκύετο
Dual ἐκωκύεσθον ἐκωκυέσθην
Plural ἐκωκυόμεθα ἐκωκύεσθε ἐκωκύοντο

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

  • οἰμώζοι γ’ ἂν καὶ κωκύοι. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, epirrheme 2:14)
  • οἶδα τὸ κεφάλαιον αὐτὸ ὧν πάσχεισ ὅτι ἐρωτικόν ἐστιν οὐ μὴν κωκύω γε ὑπὸ ἔθουσ, ἤδη πολλάκισ ὑβρισθεῖσα ὑπὸ σοῦ τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 2:2)
  • ἦ τἄν σε κωκύειν ἂν ἐκέλευον μακρά. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 1:31)
  • ἀμυχὰσ δὲ κοπτομένων καὶ τὸ θρηνεῖν πεποιημένα καὶ τὸ κωκύειν ἄλλον ἐν ταφαῖσ ἑτέρων ἀφεῖλεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 4:3)
  • τύμβου δ’ ἐν πατέρων κενεοῦ λάχεν ὃν πέρι Προμηθὶσ μήτηρ, λυγρῇ ὄρνιθι πότμον εἰκέλη, αἰαῖ κωκύει τὸν ἑὸν γόνον ἤματα πάντα, λέγουσα τὸν πρόωρον ὡσ ἀπέφθιτο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 13, chapter 27 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to shriek

  2. to wail over

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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