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λάω

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

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

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

  • ὄχον δὲ μόσχων, χρησμὸσ ὡσ λέγει Διόσ, ἐλᾷσ μετ’ ἀλόχου, βαρβάρων ἡγούμενοσ. (Euripides, episode 5:2)
  • οὐκ ἐλᾷσ ὦ σαμφόρα; (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme8)
  • οὐκ ἐλᾷσ ὦ σαμφόρα; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:38)
  • οὐ μὴ φλυαρήσεισ ἔχων ἀλλ’ ἀντιβὰσ ἐλᾷσ προθύμωσ; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 7:27)
  • Εὐρύπυλοσ δ’ Εὐαιμονίδησ Ὑψήνορα δῖον υἱὸν ὑπερθύμου Δολοπίονοσ, ὅσ ῥα Σκαμάνδρου ἀρητὴρ ἐτέτυκτο, θεὸσ δ’ ὣσ τίετο δήμῳ, τὸν μὲν ἄρ’ Εὐρύπυλοσ, Εὐαίμονοσ ἀγλαὸσ υἱόσ, πρόσθεν ἕθεν φεύγοντα μεταδρομάδην ἔλασ’ ὦμον φασγάνῳ ἀί̈ξασ, ἀπὸ δ’ ἔξεσε χεῖρα βαρεῖαν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 10:1)

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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