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ματάω

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ματάω

Structure: ματά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: ma/th

Sense

  1. to be idle, to dally, loiter, linger, lags not, to loiter, is in vain

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular μάτω μάτᾳς μάτᾳ
Dual μάτᾱτον μάτᾱτον
Plural μάτωμεν μάτᾱτε μάτωσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular μάτω μάτῃς μάτῃ
Dual μάτητον μάτητον
Plural μάτωμεν μάτητε μάτωσιν*
OptativeSingular μάτῳμι μάτῳς μάτῳ
Dual μάτῳτον ματῷτην
Plural μάτῳμεν μάτῳτε μάτῳεν
ImperativeSingular μᾶτᾱ ματᾶτω
Dual μάτᾱτον ματᾶτων
Plural μάτᾱτε ματῶντων, ματᾶτωσαν
Infinitive μάτᾱν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ματων ματωντος ματωσα ματωσης ματων ματωντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular μάτωμαι μάτᾳ μάτᾱται
Dual μάτᾱσθον μάτᾱσθον
Plural ματῶμεθα μάτᾱσθε μάτωνται
SubjunctiveSingular μάτωμαι μάτῃ μάτηται
Dual μάτησθον μάτησθον
Plural ματώμεθα μάτησθε μάτωνται
OptativeSingular ματῷμην μάτῳο μάτῳτο
Dual μάτῳσθον ματῷσθην
Plural ματῷμεθα μάτῳσθε μάτῳντο
ImperativeSingular μάτω ματᾶσθω
Dual μάτᾱσθον ματᾶσθων
Plural μάτᾱσθε ματᾶσθων, ματᾶσθωσαν
Infinitive μάτᾱσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ματωμενος ματωμενου ματωμενη ματωμενης ματωμενον ματωμενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐμᾶτων ἐμᾶτᾱς ἐμᾶτᾱν*
Dual ἐμάτᾱτον ἐματᾶτην
Plural ἐμάτωμεν ἐμάτᾱτε ἐμᾶτων
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐματῶμην ἐμάτω ἐμάτᾱτο
Dual ἐμάτᾱσθον ἐματᾶσθην
Plural ἐματῶμεθα ἐμάτᾱσθε ἐμάτωντο

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

  • καὶ Μάτων δ’ ὁ σοφιστὴσ ὀψοφάγοσ ἦν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 282)
  • δηλοῖ δὲ τοῦτο Ἀντιφάνησ ἐν Κιθαρῳδῷ, οὗ ἡ ἀρχὴ ’ οὐ ψεῦδοσ οὐδέν φησιν ὀφθαλμὸν ὤρυττέν τισ ὥσπερ ἰχθύοσ μάτων προσελθών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 28 1:1)
  • τοῦ κεστρέωσ κατεδήδοκεν τὸ κρανίον ἀναρπάσασ Μάτων ἐγὼ δ’ ἀπόλλυμαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 28 1:3)
  • ἔστι δὴ νόμῳ κατακλεῖσαι τοῦτο, παραπομπὴν ποιεῖν τῶν ἰχθύων, νυνδὶ Μάτων συνήρπακεν τοὺσ ἁλιέασ, καὶ δὴ Διογείτων νὴ Δία ἅπαντασ ἀναπέπεικεν ὡσ αὑτὸν φέρειν, κου’ δημοτικόν γε τοῦτο δρᾷ τοσαῦτα φλῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 29 2:1)
  • τοῦ κεστρέωσ κατεδήδοκεν τὸ κρανίον ἀναρπάσασ Μάτων ἐγὼ δ’ ἀπόλλυμαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 78 1:5)

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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