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μήδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μήδομαι

Structure: μήδ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: mh=dos

Sense

  1. to be minded, to intend, resolve, counsels I should take
  2. to plan, plot, contrive, to scheme, wrought
  3. to invent, attempt

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular μήδομαι μήδει, μήδῃ μήδεται
Dual μήδεσθον μήδεσθον
Plural μηδόμεθα μήδεσθε μήδονται
SubjunctiveSingular μήδωμαι μήδῃ μήδηται
Dual μήδησθον μήδησθον
Plural μηδώμεθα μήδησθε μήδωνται
OptativeSingular μηδοίμην μήδοιο μήδοιτο
Dual μήδοισθον μηδοίσθην
Plural μηδοίμεθα μήδοισθε μήδοιντο
ImperativeSingular μήδου μηδέσθω
Dual μήδεσθον μηδέσθων
Plural μήδεσθε μηδέσθων, μηδέσθωσαν
Infinitive μήδεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
μηδομενος μηδομενου μηδομενη μηδομενης μηδομενον μηδομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐμηδόμην ἐμήδου ἐμήδετο
Dual ἐμήδεσθον ἐμηδέσθην
Plural ἐμηδόμεθα ἐμήδεσθε ἐμήδοντο

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 γὰρ τοξοφόροισιν ἐμήδετο δῖ’ Ἀφροδίτα Μήδοισ Ἑλλάνων ἀκρόπολιν προδόμεν. (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 39 21:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὁπότ’ ὠκὺ νόημα διὰ στέρνοιο περήσῃ ἀνέροσ, ὅν τε θαμειαὶ ἐπιστρωφῶσι μέριμναι, ἢ ὅτε δινηθῶσιν ἀπ’ ὀφθαλμῶν ἀμαρυγαί, ὣσ ἅμ’ ἔποσ τε καὶ ἔργον ἐμήδετο κύδιμοσ Ἑρμῆσ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. to be minded

  2. to plan

  3. to invent

Derived

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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