λαμβάνω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
λαμβάνω
λήψω
ἔλαβον
εἴληφα
εἴλημμαι
ἐλήφθην
Structure:
λαμβάν
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: from Root LAB
Sense
- I take, I take hold of, grasp, seize
- I take by force, plunder
- I exact (punishment)
Conjugation
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.
- ἀπὸ φωνήεντοσ τοῦ ε λαμβάνον τὴν ἀρχὴν διέσπακε τῷ μεταξὺ χρόνῳ τὸν ἦχον οὐκ ὄντι ὀλίγῳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2254)
- οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ κομίσαντεσ αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸν καλούμενον Θησαυρόν, οἴκημα κατάγειον οὔτε πνεῦμα λαμβάνον οὔτε φῶσ ἔξωθεν οὔτε θύρασ ἔχον, ἀλλὰ μεγάλῳ λίθῳ περιαγομένῳ κατακλειόμενον, ἐνταῦθα κατέθεντο, καὶ τὸν λίθον ἐπιρράξαντεσ ἄνδρασ ἐνόπλουσ κύκλῳ περιέστησαν. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 19 3:1)
- τοῖσ γέρουσι δ’ ἱκανῶσ ἐστιν ἐπιτήδειον, ὡσ ἂν οὐκ εἰσ χολὴν ἀλλ’ εἰσ αἷμα τὴν ἀλλοίωσιν ἐν ἐκείνοισ λαμβάνον. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 849)
- νέοσ δ’ ὢν ἐν τῷ Μαρσικῷ πολέμῳ πολλὰ μὲν τόλμησ δείγματα παρέσχε καὶ συνέσεωσ, μᾶλλόν γε μὴν αὐτὸν δι’ εὐστάθειαν καὶ πρᾳότητα Σύλλασ προσηγάγετο, καὶ χρώμενοσ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἐπὶ τὰ πλείστησ ἄξια σπουδῆσ διετέλεσεν ὧν ἦν καὶ ἡ περὶ τὸ νόμισμα πραγματεία, δι’ ἐκείνου γὰρ ἐκόπη τὸ πλεῖστον ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ περὶ τὸν Μιθριδατικὸν πόλεμον, καὶ Λουκούλλειον ἀπ’ ἐκείνου προσηγορεύθη, καὶ διετέλεσεν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον, ὑπὸ τῶν στρατιωτικῶν χρειῶν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ λαμβάνον ἀμοιβὴν ταχεῖαν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 2 1:1)
- χαλεπῶν δὲ τούτων περὶ τὰ σώματα παθημάτων γιγνομένων μείζω ἔτι γίγνεται τὰ πρὸ τούτων, ὅταν ὀστοῦν διὰ πυκνότητα σαρκὸσ ἀναπνοὴν μὴ λαμβάνον ἱκανήν, ὑπ’ εὐρῶτοσ θερμαινόμενον, σφακελίσαν μήτε τὴν τροφὴν καταδέχηται πάλιν τε αὐτὸ εἰσ ἐκείνην ἐναντίωσ ἰῄ ψηχόμενον, ἡ δ’ εἰσ σάρκασ, σὰρξ δὲ εἰσ αἷμα ἐμπίπτουσα τραχύτερα πάντα τῶν πρόσθεν τὰ νοσήματα ἀπεργάζηται· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 438:2)
Synonyms
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I take
- καταλαμβάνω (I seize, grasp, hold)
- αἱρέω (to take, grasp, seize)
- συναρπάζω (to seize, grasp)
- λάζομαι (I seize, grasp)
- συμμάρπτω (to seize or grasp together)
- κρατέω (I seize, hold)
- ὑπολαμβάνω (I take up, seize)
- διαλαμβάνω (to grasp or lay hold of separately, to seize, arrest)
- δράσσομαι (to lay hold of, having seized)
- συναιρέω (to grasp or seize together, to seize at once)
- αἴνυμαι (to take, take off, take hold of)
- προσλαμβάνω (to take hold of, to take hold of)
- καθαιρέω (to take and carry off, seize)
-
I take by force
-
I exact
Derived
- ἀναλαμβάνω (to take up, take into one's hands, to take on board ship)
- ἀπολαμβάνω (to take or receive from, to receive what is one's due, to accept)
- διαλαμβάνω (to take or receive severally, each for himself, each his share)
- ἐκλαμβάνω (to receive from, receive in full, to contract to do)
- ἐπαναλαμβάνω (to take up again, resume, repeat)
- ἐπιλαμβάνω (I take or get besides, I take, receive)
- καταλαμβάνω (I seize, grasp, hold)
- μεταλαμβάνω (to have or get a share of, to partake of, to get possession of)
- παραλαμβάνω (to receive from another, to take upon oneself, undertake)
- περιλαμβάνω (to seize around, embrace, to encompass or surround)
- προκαταλαμβάνω (to seize beforehand, preoccupy, to be preoccupied)
- προλαμβάνω (to take or receive before, to take or seize beforehand, to provide)
- προσαναλαμβάνω (to take in besides, to recal, to recover)
- προσλαμβάνω (to take or receive besides, get over and above, to take to oneself)
- προυπολαμβάνω (to assume beforehand)
- συγκαταλαμβάνω (to seize, take possession of together, to occupy at the same time)
- συλλαμβάνω (I collect, gather; I rally, I take with me)
- συμπαραλαμβάνω (to take along with, take in as an adjunct)
- συμπεριλαμβάνω (to comprehend, with, to take part together in)
- συναπολαμβάνω (to receive in common or at once)
- ὑπολαμβάνω (I take up, I bear up, support)
