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κωμῳδέω

ε-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωμῳδέω

Structure: κωμῳδέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: kwmw|do/s

Sense

  1. to represent in a comedy, to satirise, lampoon, libel, to be so satirised
  2. to write comedies

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κωμῳδῶ κωμῳδεῖς κωμῳδεῖ
Dual κωμῳδεῖτον κωμῳδεῖτον
Plural κωμῳδοῦμεν κωμῳδεῖτε κωμῳδοῦσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular κωμῳδῶ κωμῳδῇς κωμῳδῇ
Dual κωμῳδῆτον κωμῳδῆτον
Plural κωμῳδῶμεν κωμῳδῆτε κωμῳδῶσιν*
OptativeSingular κωμῳδοῖμι κωμῳδοῖς κωμῳδοῖ
Dual κωμῳδοῖτον κωμῳδοίτην
Plural κωμῳδοῖμεν κωμῳδοῖτε κωμῳδοῖεν
ImperativeSingular κωμῴδει κωμῳδείτω
Dual κωμῳδεῖτον κωμῳδείτων
Plural κωμῳδεῖτε κωμῳδούντων, κωμῳδείτωσαν
Infinitive κωμῳδεῖν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κωμῳδων κωμῳδουντος κωμῳδουσα κωμῳδουσης κωμῳδουν κωμῳδουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular κωμῳδοῦμαι κωμῳδεῖ, κωμῳδῇ κωμῳδεῖται
Dual κωμῳδεῖσθον κωμῳδεῖσθον
Plural κωμῳδούμεθα κωμῳδεῖσθε κωμῳδοῦνται
SubjunctiveSingular κωμῳδῶμαι κωμῳδῇ κωμῳδῆται
Dual κωμῳδῆσθον κωμῳδῆσθον
Plural κωμῳδώμεθα κωμῳδῆσθε κωμῳδῶνται
OptativeSingular κωμῳδοίμην κωμῳδοῖο κωμῳδοῖτο
Dual κωμῳδοῖσθον κωμῳδοίσθην
Plural κωμῳδοίμεθα κωμῳδοῖσθε κωμῳδοῖντο
ImperativeSingular κωμῳδοῦ κωμῳδείσθω
Dual κωμῳδεῖσθον κωμῳδείσθων
Plural κωμῳδεῖσθε κωμῳδείσθων, κωμῳδείσθωσαν
Infinitive κωμῳδεῖσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
κωμῳδουμενος κωμῳδουμενου κωμῳδουμενη κωμῳδουμενης κωμῳδουμενον κωμῳδουμενου

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

  • ἐῶ γὰρ τὰσ ἄλλασ αὐτοῦ γραφὰσ παραφέρειν, ἐν αἷσ κωμῳδεῖ τοὺσ πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ, Παρμενίδην τε καὶ Ἱππίαν καὶ Πρωταγόραν καὶ Πρόδικον καὶ Γοργίαν καὶ Πῶλον καὶ Θεόδωρον καὶ Θρασύμαχον καὶ ἄλλουσ συχνούσ, οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ βελτίστου πάντα περὶ αὐτῶν γράφων ἀλλ’ εἰ βούλει, καὶ ἀπὸ φιλοτιμίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 12:1)
  • διαβαλλόμενοσ δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἐν Ἀθηναίοισ ταχυβούλοισ, ὡσ κωμῳδεῖ τὴν πόλιν ἡμῶν καὶ τὸν δῆμον καθυβρίζει, ἀποκρίνασθαι δεῖται νυνὶ πρὸσ Ἀθηναίουσ μεταβούλουσ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, parabasis2)
  • σκώπτειν πειρᾷ καὶ κωμῳδεῖν τοῦ σπουδάζειν ἀμελήσασ, οὐ γιγνώσκων ὅτι τοῦ Πλούτου παρέχω βελτίονασ ἄνδρασ καὶ τὴν γνώμην καὶ τὴν ἰδέαν. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:17)
  • φύσει γὰρ τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν ὁ πολὺσ λεώσ, ’ χαίρουσι τοῖσ ἀποσκώπτουσιν καὶ λοιδορουμένοισ, καὶ μάλισθ’ ὅταν τὰ σεμνότατα εἶναι δοκοῦντα διασύρηται, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ πάλαι ἔχαιρον Ἀριστοφάνει καὶ Εὐπόλιδι Σωκράτη τουτονὶ ἐπὶ χλευασίᾳ παράγουσιν ἐπὶ τὴν σκηνὴν καὶ κωμῳδοῦσιν ἀλλοκότουσ τινὰσ περὶ αὐτοῦ κωμῳδίασ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 25:4)
  • Ἄλεξισ δ’ ἐν Δημητρίῳ Φάυλλόν τινα κωμῳδεῖ ὡσ φίλιχθυν ἐν τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 211)

Synonyms

  1. to represent in a comedy

  2. to write comedies

Derived

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

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