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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

  • λῶ τι μυσίξαι νέον. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, iambics2)
  • Ὀρεία ποτὲ δρομάδι κώ‐ λῳ μάτηρ θεῶν ἐσύθη ἀν’ ὑλάεντα νάπη ποτάμιόν τε χεῦμ’ ὑδάτων βαρύβρομόν τε κῦμ’ ἅλιον πόθῳ τᾶσ ἀποιχομένασ ἀρρήτου κούρασ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 11)

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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