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

  • ὡρ́α ’στὶ νῷν ἤδη βαδίζειν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode31)
  • ὁ θεὸσ ἀμοχθὶ κεῖσε νῷν ἡγήσεται. (Euripides, episode18)
  • ἢ γάρ τισ ἀροτὴρ ἤ τισ οἰκέτισ γυνὴ φανήσεται νῷν, ἥντιν’ ἱστορήσομεν εἰ τούσδε ναίει σύγγονοσ τόπουσ ἐμή. (Euripides, episode 6:2)
  • οἴμοι τοῦ καταφθιμένου τοῦ τε ζῶντοσ ἀλάτα, ὅσ που γᾶν ἄλλαν κατέχει, μέλεοσ ἀλαί‐ νων ποτὶ θῆσσαν ἑστίαν, τοῦ κλεινοῦ πατρὸσ ἐκφύσ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 36)
  • κοινῇ δίδωμι τοῦτο νῷν ἀμφοῖν ἔχειν. (Euripides, episode22)

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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