Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μετέρχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετέρχομαι μετελεύσομαι μετῆλθον μετελήλυθα

Structure: μετ (Prefix) + έ̓ρχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: in attic, the imperf. and fut. are borrowed from me/teimi, q. v.

Sense

  1. to come or go among, having gone between the ranks
  2. to go to another place, to come next, follow
  3. to go after, to go to seek, go in quest of, to seek for, aim at
  4. to pursue, to seek to avenge, to visit, upon
  5. to go after, attend to, to pursue
  6. to approach with prayers, to court or woo

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

  • ἐὰν οὖν μὴ πρότερον ἐμβεβῶσι τῷ ἐπιτηδεύματι, τότε ἐπιχειρήσαντεσ μανθάνουσί τε ὅθεν ἄν τι δύνωνται καὶ αὐτοὶ μετέρχονται, ἰχνεύοντεσ δὲ παρ’ ἑαυτῶν ἀνευρίσκειν τὴν τοῦ σφετέρου θεοῦ φύσιν εὐποροῦσι διὰ τὸ συντόνωσ ἠναγκάσθαι πρὸσ τὸν θεὸν βλέπειν, καὶ ἐφαπτόμενοι αὐτοῦ τῇ μνήμῃ ἐνθουσιῶντεσ ἐξ ἐκείνου λαμβάνουσι τὰ ἔθη καὶ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα, καθ’ ὅσον δυνατὸν θεοῦ ἀνθρώπῳ μετασχεῖν· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 178:3)
  • τὸν δὲ χρυσόν τοῦτον τὸν ἱρὸν φυλάσσουσι οἱ βασιλέεσ ἐσ τὰ μάλιστα, καὶ θυσίῃσι μεγάλῃσι ἱλασκόμενοι μετέρχονται ἀνὰ πᾶν ἔτοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 7 1:2)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν Ἐρετριέων γένοσ οὕτωσ ἀνήρπαστο ὡσπερεὶ παρ’ ἄλλου τινὸσ τῶν κρειττόνων ἁρπασθὲν, οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ τὸν δεύτερον ᾔεσαν, ὡσ ἀνασπάσοντεσ αὐτοὺσ ἤδη τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ καὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἀναρπασόμενοι, κακῶσ εἰδότεσ οἱάν θήραν μετέρχονται καὶ ὅτι οὐκ ἐνέχονται τῷ λόγῳ ὡσ ἄρα οὐ τὰ φεύγοντα διώκουσιν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον τὰ τῷ διώκειν συνήθη. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 33:6)
  • οὐδὲ εἰ μὴ θαυμασθήσομαι παρὰ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ, οὐδέν μοι διαφέρει, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ὁ φίλοινοσ οὐχ ἡγεῖται ζημίαν, εἰ μηδεὶσ αὐτῷ πίνοντι συνείσεται, καὶ ὁ παιδεραστὴσ καὶ ὁ φιλογύνησ οὐ πρὸσ τὴν ἑτέρων μαρτυρίαν τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν μετέρχονται, ἀλλὰ στέργουσιν ἂν ἔχωσιν οἷσ χαίρουσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἐγὼ λόγοισ συνὼν καὶ τούτοισ ἀνθ’ ἑτέρων χρώμενοσ τέρπομαι τὴν πρέπουσαν ἴσωσ μᾶλλον ἐλευθέρῳ τέρψιν καὶ ἡδονήν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 107:3)

Synonyms

  1. to come or go among

  2. to go to another place

  3. to go after

  4. to go after

  5. to approach with prayers

Derived

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

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