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λάω?

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration: laō

Principal Part: λάω

Structure: λά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: an old Doric Verb, found only in pres.

Sense

  1. to wish, desire

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λῶ λᾷς λᾷ
Dual λᾶτον λᾶτον
Plural λῶμεν λᾶτε λῶσι(ν)
SubjunctiveSingular λῶ λῇς λῇ
Dual λῆτον λῆτον
Plural λῶμεν λῆτε λῶσι(ν)
OptativeSingular λῷμι λῷς λῷ
Dual λῷτον λῴτην
Plural λῷμεν λῷτε λῷεν
ImperativeSingular λᾶ λάτω
Dual λᾶτον λάτων
Plural λᾶτε λώντων, λάτωσαν
Infinitive λᾶν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λων λωντος λωσα λωσης λων λωντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λῶμαι λᾷ λᾶται
Dual λᾶσθον λᾶσθον
Plural λώμεθα λᾶσθε λῶνται
SubjunctiveSingular λῶμαι λῇ λῆται
Dual λῆσθον λῆσθον
Plural λώμεθα λῆσθε λῶνται
OptativeSingular λῴμην λῷο λῷτο
Dual λῷσθον λῴσθην
Plural λῴμεθα λῷσθε λῷντο
ImperativeSingular λῶ λάσθω
Dual λᾶσθον λάσθων
Plural λᾶσθε λάσθων, λάσθωσαν
Infinitive λᾶσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λωμενος λωμενου λωμενη λωμενης λωμενον λωμενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἔλων ἔλας ἔλα(ν)
Dual ἐλᾶτον ἐλάτην
Plural ἐλῶμεν ἐλᾶτε ἔλων
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλώμην ἐλῶ ἐλᾶτο
Dual ἐλᾶσθον ἐλάσθην
Plural ἐλώμεθα ἐλᾶσθε ἐλῶντο

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

  • ελὼ δὲ τ[ φιλ]λάκατος, ]δ ἐπ εὐναῆ [πόρον ]α: (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 6:1)
  • πότερον παρανοίας αὐτὸν εἰσαγαγὼν ἕλω, ἢ τοῖς σοροπηγοῖς τὴν μανίαν αὐτοῦ φράσω· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics34)
  • ὁρᾶτε μὲν δὴ καὶ Δαρεῖον προθυμούμενον στρατεύεσθαι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἄνδρας τούτους, ἀλλ ὃ μὲν τετελεύτηκε, καὶ οὐκ ἐξεγένετ αὐτῷ τιμωρήσασθαι, ἐγὼ δ ὑπέρ τ ἐκείνου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Περσῶν οὐ πρότερον παύσομαι, πρὶν ἕλω τε καὶ πυρώσω τὰς Αθήνας. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 41 3:3)
  • πρὸς δὲ τοὺς φίλους οἷ ἀνταμείβει ῥήματ, ἤν ς ἕλω ποτέ τίς δ ἄν με τῶνδε συμμάχων ἕλοι βίᾳ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:11)
  • "αἴκα ταύταν ἕλω. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 2 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to wish

Derived

  • λάω? (I see, to behold, look upon)

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

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