Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νέω

Structure: νέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to spin, spun

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

  • Ἴκαροσ δέ, νεότητι καὶ ἀτασθαλίῃ χρεόμενοσ καὶ οὐκ ἐπιεικτὰ διζήμενοσ ἀλλὰ ἐσ πόλον ^ ἀερθεὶσ τῷ νῷ, ἐξέπεσε τῆσ ἀληθείησ καὶ παντὸσ ἀπεσφάλη τοῦ λόγου καὶ ἐσ πέλαγοσ κατηνέχθη ἀβύσσων πρηγμάτων, τὸν Ἕλληνεσ ἄλλωσ μυθολογέουσιν καὶ κόλπον ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἐν τῇδε τῇ θαλάσσῃ Ἰκάριον εἰκῆ καλέουσιν. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 15:1)
  • ἐκείνω μὲν οὖν τὼ μειρακίω, ἀτασθάλω γὰρ ἤστην, δίκασ ἐτισάτην νὼ δὲ ‐ οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ κακῷ τῶν θεῶν ταῦτα βουλεύομεν ‐ τί οὐχὶ οἰκοδομοῦμεν καὶ αὐτοὶ κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ ἐπικυλινδοῦντεσ ἐπάλληλα τὰ ὄρη, ὡσ ἔχοιμεν ἀφ’ ὑψηλοτέρου ἀκριβεστέραν τὴν σκοπήν; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 3:11)
  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ νὼ ‐ σχολὴν γὰρ ἄγομεν καὶ σύ, ὡσ φήσ, προθυμῇ ἀκούειν ‐ ἀναδραμούμεθα ῥᾳδίωσ πρὸσ τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τὸν κοινὸν ἀγῶνα δι’ ὅν φημι πάντα ταῦτα ἐπιτηδεύεσθαι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 16:5)
  • νὼ δ’ ἐπὶ πόντον Σικελὸν σπουδῇ σῴσοντε νεῶν πρῴρασ ἐνάλουσ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:19)
  • βλέψαι ποιῆσαι νώ ‐ τίνα βλέψαι; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:34)

Synonyms

  1. to spin

Derived

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

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