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λοχάω

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοχάω

Structure: λοχά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: lo/xos

Sense

  1. to lie in wait for, to watch, waylay, entrap
  2. to lie in wait or ambush
  3. to occupy with an ambuscade

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λόχω λόχᾳς λόχᾳ
Dual λόχᾱτον λόχᾱτον
Plural λόχωμεν λόχᾱτε λόχωσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular λόχω λόχῃς λόχῃ
Dual λόχητον λόχητον
Plural λόχωμεν λόχητε λόχωσιν*
OptativeSingular λόχῳμι λόχῳς λόχῳ
Dual λόχῳτον λοχῷτην
Plural λόχῳμεν λόχῳτε λόχῳεν
ImperativeSingular λο͂χᾱ λοχᾶτω
Dual λόχᾱτον λοχᾶτων
Plural λόχᾱτε λοχῶντων, λοχᾶτωσαν
Infinitive λόχᾱν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λοχων λοχωντος λοχωσα λοχωσης λοχων λοχωντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular λόχωμαι λόχᾳ λόχᾱται
Dual λόχᾱσθον λόχᾱσθον
Plural λοχῶμεθα λόχᾱσθε λόχωνται
SubjunctiveSingular λόχωμαι λόχῃ λόχηται
Dual λόχησθον λόχησθον
Plural λοχώμεθα λόχησθε λόχωνται
OptativeSingular λοχῷμην λόχῳο λόχῳτο
Dual λόχῳσθον λοχῷσθην
Plural λοχῷμεθα λόχῳσθε λόχῳντο
ImperativeSingular λόχω λοχᾶσθω
Dual λόχᾱσθον λοχᾶσθων
Plural λόχᾱσθε λοχᾶσθων, λοχᾶσθωσαν
Infinitive λόχᾱσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
λοχωμενος λοχωμενου λοχωμενη λοχωμενης λοχωμενον λοχωμενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλο͂χων ἐλο͂χᾱς ἐλο͂χᾱν*
Dual ἐλόχᾱτον ἐλοχᾶτην
Plural ἐλόχωμεν ἐλόχᾱτε ἐλο͂χων
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐλοχῶμην ἐλόχω ἐλόχᾱτο
Dual ἐλόχᾱσθον ἐλοχᾶσθην
Plural ἐλοχῶμεθα ἐλόχᾱσθε ἐλόχωντο

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

  • εἷσε δέ μιν κρύψασα λόχῳ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 21:3)
  • συλλοχισμὸσ δ̓ ἐστὶ παράθεσισ λόχου ἑτέρῳ λόχῳ. (Arrian, chapter 7 2:1)
  • αὐτίκα ἐπεὶ τῷ λόχῳ ἑκκαίδεκα ἀνδρῶν τὸ βάθοσ ὑπεθέμεθα, τέσσαρεσ καὶ εἴκοσι ἐπὶ τοῖσ χιλίοισ ἔσονται οἱ λόχοι ἐν τῷδε τῷ ἀριθμῷ, καὶ οὗτοι μεμερισμένοι ἐσ τάγματα, ὧν ἑκάστῳ καὶ ὄνομα οἰκεῖον πρόσκειται. (Arrian, chapter 9 11:1)
  • ζυγεῖν δὲ τὸ ἐπ̓ εὐθείασ ἰέναι κατὰ μῆκοσ ἕκαστον τῶν ἐν τῷ λόχῳ τῷ συζυγοῦντι. (Arrian, chapter 22 2:1)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ τούτοισ μὲν ἔστι παραβαλεῖν τὰ Λεῦκτρα καὶ Τεγύρασ, ἐπιφανεστάτουσ καὶ μεγίστουσ ἀγώνων, κρυφαίαν δὲ σὺν λόχῳ κατωρθωμένην πρᾶξιν οὐκ ἔχομεν τοῦ Μαρκέλλου παραβαλεῖν οἷσ Πελοπίδασ περὶ τὴν ἐκ φυγῆσ κάθοδον καὶ ἀναίρεσιν τῶν ἐν Θήβαισ τυράννων ἔπραξεν, ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο πολὺ πάντων ἐοίκε πρωτεύειν τῶν ὑπὸ σκότῳ καὶ δι’ ἀπάτησ γεγενημένων τὸ ἔργον. (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 1 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to lie in wait for

  2. to lie in wait or ambush

  3. to occupy with an ambuscade

Similar forms

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

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