Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μειρακιεύομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μειρακιεύομαι

Structure: μειρακιεύ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to play the boy

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

  • Παραπαίεισ, ὦ γέρον, καὶ μειρακιεύῃ πρὸσ τὸ χρεών, καὶ ταῦτα ηλικιώτησ ὢν τοῦ πορθμέωσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 17:6)
  • οὕτω σφόδρα δόξει σοὶ κριτῇ μειρακιεύεσθαι ὥστε μηδὲν εἶναι χρῆμα λαλίστερον αὐτοῦ μηδ’ αὐθαδέστερον. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:5)
  • ὥστε οὐ μειρακιεύομαι, ἀλλὰ τἀληθὲσ εἴρηκα. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 15:10)

Synonyms

  1. to play the boy

Derived

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

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