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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

  • 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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