Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

οἴομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἴομαι

Structure: οί̓ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to suppose
  2. to look for a contingency; to hope, fear, expect
  3. when the event rests with oneself, to purpose or will
  4. to express full persuasion, either modestly or ironically
  5. of an opinion or judgment, to deem, conceive, imagine

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ᾠόμην ῴ̓ου ῴ̓ετο
Dual ῴ̓εσθον ᾠέσθην
Plural ᾠόμεθα ῴ̓εσθε ῴ̓οντο

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

  • κρεῖττον εἶναι μὴ μετασχεῖν μὲν αὐτῶν, μετέχειν δὲ μηδὲν ἧττον, καὶ τὸ οἰέσθαι μὲν δεῖν πράττειν καὶ τὰ καλὰ καὶ τὰ συμφέροντα, ἀφίστασθαι δὲ αὐτῶν διὰ τὰσ ἡδονάσ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 35:1)
  • ταῦτα καὶ πολὺ τούτων γελοιότερα εὑρ́οι τισ ἂν ἐπιτηρῶν ἐν τοῖσ πένθεσι γιγνόμενα διὰ τὸ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ τὸ μέγιστον τῶν κακῶν τὸν θάνατον οἰέσθαι. (Lucian, (no name) 22:7)
  • τὸ δ’ ὑμέτερον τῆσ τε δυνάμεωσ ἐνδεᾶ πρᾶξαι τῆσ τε γνώμησ μηδὲ τοῖσ βεβαίοισ πιστεῦσαι, τῶν δὲ δεινῶν μηδέποτε οἰέσθαι ἀπολυθήσεσθαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 175)
  • λαβόντα δὲ μεθ’ ἡμέραν μὲν ἐν τῇ πόλει χρῆσθαι οὐκ ἀσφαλὲσ οἰέσθαι εἶναι, νύκτωρ δὲ ὑπὸ κόλπου ἔχοντα μόνον προελθεῖν εἰσ τὸ προάστειον καὶ προχειρισάμενον κρούειν καὶ συνταράττειν τὰσ χορδὰσ ἄτεχνον καὶ ἄμουσον νεανίσκον, ἐλπίζοντα μέλη τινὰ θεσπέσια ὑπηχήσειν τὴν λύραν ὑφ’ ὧν πάντασ καταθέλξειν καὶ κηλήσειν, καὶ ὅλωσ μακάριον ἔσεσθαι κληρονομήσαντα τῆσ Ὀρφέωσ μουσικῆσ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 12:1)
  • καὶ μὴν καὶ τὸ δόγμα τοῦτὸ γέ ἐστιν τοῖσ Περιπατητικοῖσ, τὸ μὴ σφόδρα καταφρονεῖν χρημάτων, ἀλλὰ τρίτον τι ἀγαθὸν καὶ τοῦτο οἰέσθαι. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 3:7)

Synonyms

  1. to suppose

  2. to look for a contingency

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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