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μιμέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μιμέομαι

Structure: μιμέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: mi=mos

Sense

  1. to mimic, imitate, represent, portray, in, made to represent, made exactly like, portrayed
  2. to represent, express by means of imitation

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular μιμοῦμαι μιμεῖ, μιμῇ μιμεῖται
Dual μιμεῖσθον μιμεῖσθον
Plural μιμούμεθα μιμεῖσθε μιμοῦνται
SubjunctiveSingular μιμῶμαι μιμῇ μιμῆται
Dual μιμῆσθον μιμῆσθον
Plural μιμώμεθα μιμῆσθε μιμῶνται
OptativeSingular μιμοίμην μιμοῖο μιμοῖτο
Dual μιμοῖσθον μιμοίσθην
Plural μιμοίμεθα μιμοῖσθε μιμοῖντο
ImperativeSingular μιμοῦ μιμείσθω
Dual μιμεῖσθον μιμείσθων
Plural μιμεῖσθε μιμείσθων, μιμείσθωσαν
Infinitive μιμεῖσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
μιμουμενος μιμουμενου μιμουμενη μιμουμενης μιμουμενον μιμουμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐμιμούμην ἐμιμοῦ ἐμιμεῖτο
Dual ἐμιμεῖσθον ἐμιμείσθην
Plural ἐμιμούμεθα ἐμιμεῖσθε ἐμιμοῦντο

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

  • δὸσ τὴν χάριν μοι τήνδε καὶ μιμοῦ τρόπουσ πατρὸσ δικαίου· (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 9:2)
  • εἶπεν "ὦ παῖ, μιμοῦ τοῦ πατρὸσ τὸ εὔκολον καὶ φιλέταιρον, εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία δέδοικασ ἡμᾶσ ὡσ ἐπιβουλεύοντασ. (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 4 5:1)
  • λέγεται γοῦν, ὡσ ἐν Ἱππίου ποτὲ τοῦ μίμου γάμοισ ἑστιαθεὶσ καὶ πιὼν διὰ νυκτόσ, εἶτα πρωῒ τοῦ δήμου καλοῦντοσ εἰσ ἀγορὰν προελθὼν ἔτι τροφῆσ μεστὸσ ἐμέσειε, τῶν φίλων τινὸσ ὑποσχόντοσ τὸ ἱμάτιον. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 9 4:1)
  • ὥστ’, εἰ βούλει φίλοσ ὑπάρχων μετὰ πολλῶν διάγειν φίλων, μιμοῦ τὴν μέλιτταν· (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 1-2) 6:7)
  • Εἰ βούλει σοι τὴν οἰκίαν εὖ οἰκεῖσθαι, μιμοῦ τὸν Σπαρτιάτην Λυκοῦργον. (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 39:1)

Synonyms

  1. to mimic

  2. to represent

Derived

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

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