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μαιεύομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαιεύομαι

Structure: μαιεύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to serve as a midwife
  2. to deliver

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

  • πλὴν ἀλλ̓ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ μαντεύομαι, ὁ δὲ Ἀσκληπιὸσ ἰᾶται, σὺ δὲ παλαίειν διδάσκεισ παιδοτρίβησ ἄριστοσ ὤν, ἡ δὲ Ἄρτεμισ μαιεύεται καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστοσ ἔχει τινὰ τέχνην ἢ θεοῖσ ἢ ἀνθρώποισ χρησίμην, οὗτοι δὲ τί ποιήσουσιν ἡμῖν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 8:5)
  • οἶσθα γάρ που ὡσ οὐδεμία αὐτῶν ἔτι αὐτὴ κυϊσκομένη τε καὶ τίκτουσα ἄλλασ μαιεύεται, ἀλλ’ αἱ ἤδη ἀδύνατοι τίκτειν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 46:5)

Synonyms

  1. to serve as a midwife

  2. to deliver

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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