Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μεταμέλομαι

Non-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεταμέλομαι μεταμελήσομαι μετεμελήθην

Structure: μετα (Prefix) + μέλ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: me/lw

Sense

  1. it repents, rues
  2. I repent of
  3. it repents, to repent
  4. since it repented
  5. to cause repentance or sorrow
  6. to feel repentance, to rue, regret, they repented that, to change one's purpose or line of conduct
  7. that which will cause regret, matter for future repentance

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • ἂν δ’ ὑπεσχημένοσ ἀργύριον οἰκείῳ τινὶ δανείσειν ἢ ἐπιδώσειν μεταμέληται μὲν αἰδῆται δέ, τῇ χείρονι ῥοπῇ προστιθεὶσ ἑαυτὸν ὁ κόλαξ ἐπέρρωσε τὴν εἰσ τὸ βαλλάντιον γνώμην καὶ τὸ δυσωπούμενον ἐξέκοψεν, ὡσ ἀναλίσκοντα πολλὰ καὶ πολλοῖσ ἀρκεῖν ὀφείλοντα φείδεσθαι κελεύων. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 20 10:1)
  • οἱ δὲ θεράποντεσ ἐπιστάμενοι τὸν τρόπον αὐτοῦ κατακρύπτουσι τὸν Κροῖσον ἐπὶ τῷδε τῷ λόγῳ ὥστε, εἰ μὲν μεταμελήσῃ τῷ Καμβύσῃ καὶ ἐπιζητέῃ τὸν Κροῖσον, οἳ δὲ ἐκφήναντεσ αὐτὸν δῶρα λάμψονται ζωάγρια Κροίσου, ἢν δὲ μὴ μεταμέληται μηδὲ ποθέῃ μιν, τότε καταχρᾶσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 36 6:1)

Derived

  • μέλω (to be an object of care, to care for, it is a matter of concern)

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

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