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μορμολύττομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μορμολύττομαι

Structure: μορμολύττ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: only in pres. and imperf.

Sense

  1. to frighten, scare
  2. to be afraid of

Conjugation

Present 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

  • μορμολύττεται γάρ με καὶ φεύγω, ὅταν ἴδω αὐτό. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:9)
  • ὡσ βρεφυλλίοισ ταῦτα, ὦ μισθοφόρε, ἡμῖν λέγεισ καὶ μορμολύττῃ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 5:9)
  • φέρ’ ἴδω, πότερα Λυδὸν ἢ Φρύγα ταυτὶ λέγουσα μορμολύττεσθαι δοκεῖσ; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:18)
  • ὧν ἐὰν μὴ βελτίω ἔχωμεν λέγειν ἐν τῷ παρόντι, εὖ ἴσθι ὅτι οὐ μή σοι συγχωρήσω, οὐδ’ ἂν πλείω τῶν νῦν παρόντων ἡ τῶν πολλῶν δύναμισ ὥσπερ παῖδασ ἡμᾶσ μορμολύττηται, δεσμοὺσ καὶ θανάτουσ ἐπιπέμπουσα καὶ χρημάτων ἀφαιρέσεισ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 22:1)
  • ἀλλὰ τί δή ποτε, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, ἡμᾶσ μὲν οὕτω τοὺσ φίλουσ μορμολύττῃ ἀπὸ τῶν καλῶν, αὐτὸν δέ σε, ἔφη, ἐγὼ εἶδον ναὶ μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω, ὅτε παρὰ τῷ γραμματιστῇ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ βιβλίῳ ἀμφότεροι ἐμαστεύετέ τι, τὴν κεφαλὴν πρὸσ τῇ κεφαλῇ καὶ τὸν ὦμον γυμνὸν πρὸσ γυμνῷ τῷ Κριτοβούλου ὤμῳ ἔχοντα. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 28:2)

Synonyms

  1. to frighten

  2. to be afraid of

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

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