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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

  • Ἕλληνεσ δὲ οὔτε παρ’ Αἰθιόπων οὔτε παρ’ Αἰγυπτίων ἀστρολογίησ πέρι οὐδὲν ἤκουσαν, ἀλλὰ σφίσιν Ὀρφεὺσ ὁ Οἰάγρου καὶ Καλλιόπησ πρῶτοσ τάδε ἀπηγήσατο, οὐ μάλα ἐμφανέωσ, οὐδὲ ἐσ φάοσ τὸν λόγον προήνεγκεν, ἀλλ’ ἐσ γοητείην καὶ ἱερολογίην, οἱή διανοίη ἐκείνου. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 10:1)
  • ἢ οἱή προλιποῦσα δόμουσ καὶ πατρίδα γαῖαν ἤλυθεν ἐσ Θήβασ μετ’ ἀρήιον Ἀμφιτρύωνα Ἀλκμήνη, θυγάτηρ λαοσσόου Ἠλεκτρύωνοσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 2:1)
  • καὶ οἱή δ’ Ἄρτεμισ εἶσι κατ’ οὔρεοσ. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 25:4)
  • "ἢ οἱή ποτ’ ἄρ’ ἥγ’ Ἀρισταινέτου ἐν μεγάροισι δῖα Κλεανθὶσ ἄνασσ1’ ἐτρέφετ’ ἐνδυκέωσ, προὔχουσ1’ ἀλλάων πασάων παρθενικάων, κρέσσων τῆσ Κυθέρησ ἠδ’ ἅμα τῆσ Ἑλένησ. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 40:8)
  • οἰή δ’ αὖ θύννου κεφαλὴ θαλαμηιάδαο νόσφιν ἀφειστήκει, κεχολωμένη οὕνεκα τευχέων αἰρομένων· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 10:3)

Synonyms

  1. to suppose

  2. to look for a contingency

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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