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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

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular μαιεύομαι μαιεύει, μαιεύῃ μαιεύεται
Dual μαιεύεσθον μαιεύεσθον
Plural μαιευόμεθα μαιεύεσθε μαιεύονται
SubjunctiveSingular μαιεύωμαι μαιεύῃ μαιεύηται
Dual μαιεύησθον μαιεύησθον
Plural μαιευώμεθα μαιεύησθε μαιεύωνται
OptativeSingular μαιευοίμην μαιεύοιο μαιεύοιτο
Dual μαιεύοισθον μαιευοίσθην
Plural μαιευοίμεθα μαιεύοισθε μαιεύοιντο
ImperativeSingular μαιεύου μαιευέσθω
Dual μαιεύεσθον μαιευέσθων
Plural μαιεύεσθε μαιευέσθων, μαιευέσθωσαν
Infinitive μαιεύεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
μαιευομενος μαιευομενου μαιευομενη μαιευομενης μαιευομενον μαιευομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐμαιευόμην ἐμαιεύου ἐμαιεύετο
Dual ἐμαιεύεσθον ἐμαιευέσθην
Plural ἐμαιευόμεθα ἐμαιεύεσθε ἐμαιεύοντο

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

  • οὐ μνημονεύεισ, ὦ φίλε, ὅτι ἐγὼ μὲν οὔτ’ οἶδα οὔτε ποιοῦμαι τῶν τοιούτων οὐδὲν ἐμόν, ἀλλ’ εἰμὶ αὐτῶν ἄγονοσ, σὲ δὲ μαιεύομαι καὶ τούτου ἕνεκα ἐπᾴδω τε καὶ παρατίθημι ἑκάστων τῶν σοφῶν ἀπογεύσασθαι, ἑώσ ἂν εἰσ φῶσ τὸ σὸν δόγμα συνεξαγάγω· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 95:4)

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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