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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

  • Καὶ σὺ γάρ, Τιμόλαε, μιμῇ Λυκῖνον καὶ ἐπιμετρεῖσ τῶν σκωμμάτων, καὶ ταῦτα εἰσηγητὴσ αὐτὸσ γενόμενοσ; (Lucian, 34:7)
  • ἐξαπατᾷσ με, ὦ φίλτατε Ἱππία, καὶ αὐτὸσ τὸν Ὀδυσσέα μιμῇ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 47:5)
  • οὕτωσ καὶ σὺ νῦν μὲν ἀθλητήσ, νῦν δὲ μονομάχοσ, εἶτα φιλόσοφοσ, εἶτα ῥήτωρ, ὅλῃ δὲ τῇ ψυχῇ οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ὁ πίθηκοσ πᾶν ὃ ἂν ἴδῃσ μιμῇ καὶ ἀεί σοι ἄλλο ἐξ ἄλλου ἀρέσκει, τὸ σύνηθεσ δ’ ἀπαρέσκει. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 6:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ πίθηκοσ πᾶσαν θέαν, ἣν ἂν ἴδῃσ, μιμῇ καὶ ἄλλο ἐξ ἄλλου σοι ἀρέσκει. (Epictetus, Works, chapter 29 3:4)

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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