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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

  • " ταῦτ’ οὖν ἐγὼ μὲν ἔτι καὶ νῦν περιιὼν ζητῶ καὶ ἐρευνῶ κατὰ τὸν θεὸν καὶ τῶν ἀστῶν καὶ ξένων ἄν τινα οἰώμαι σοφὸν εἶναι· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 49:1)
  • οὐκ ἐπὶ μὲν τοῖσ ἑτέρων εὐτυχήμασι φαιδρὸσ ἐγὼ καὶ γεγηθὼσ κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν περιέρχομαι, τὴν δεξιὰν προτείνων καὶ εὐαγγελιζόμενοσ τούτοισ οὓσ ἂν ἐκεῖσ’ ἀπαγγελεῖν οἰώμαι, τῶν δὲ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀγαθῶν πεφρικὼσ ἀκούω καὶ στένων καὶ κύπτων εἰσ τὴν γῆν, ὥσπερ οἱ δυσσεβεῖσ οὗτοι, οἳ τὴν μὲν πόλιν διασύρουσιν, ὥσπερ οὐχ αὑτοὺσ διασύροντεσ, ὅταν τοῦτο ποιῶσιν, ἔξω δὲ βλέπουσι, καὶ ἐν οἷσ ἀτυχησάντων τῶν Ἑλλήνων ηὐτύχησ’ ἕτεροσ, ταῦτ’ ἐπαινοῦσι καὶ ὅπωσ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον μενεῖ φασὶ δεῖν τηρεῖν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 449:1)
  • καίτοι μετὰ πολλῶν γε ζητῶ, καὶ τούτων μάλιστα οὓσ ἂν οἰώμαι ἐμπειροτάτουσ εἶναι τοῦ πράγματοσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 121:5)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐγώ, ὦ παῖ, παρά τε τούτου καὶ παρ’ ἄλλων οὓσ ἂν οἰώμαί τι τούτων ἐπαί̈ειν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 24:3)

Synonyms

  1. to suppose

  2. to look for a contingency

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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