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οἰωνίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰωνίζομαι

Structure: οἰωνίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take omens from the flight and cries of birds
  2. to divine from omens, augur

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular οἰωνίζομαι οἰωνίζει, οἰωνίζῃ οἰωνίζεται
Dual οἰωνίζεσθον οἰωνίζεσθον
Plural οἰωνιζόμεθα οἰωνίζεσθε οἰωνίζονται
SubjunctiveSingular οἰωνίζωμαι οἰωνίζῃ οἰωνίζηται
Dual οἰωνίζησθον οἰωνίζησθον
Plural οἰωνιζώμεθα οἰωνίζησθε οἰωνίζωνται
OptativeSingular οἰωνιζοίμην οἰωνίζοιο οἰωνίζοιτο
Dual οἰωνίζοισθον οἰωνιζοίσθην
Plural οἰωνιζοίμεθα οἰωνίζοισθε οἰωνίζοιντο
ImperativeSingular οἰωνίζου οἰωνιζέσθω
Dual οἰωνίζεσθον οἰωνιζέσθων
Plural οἰωνίζεσθε οἰωνιζέσθων, οἰωνιζέσθωσαν
Infinitive οἰωνίζεσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
οἰωνιζομενος οἰωνιζομενου οἰωνιζομενη οἰωνιζομενης οἰωνιζομενον οἰωνιζομενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ᾠωνιζόμην ᾠωνίζου ᾠωνίζετο
Dual ᾠωνίζεσθον ᾠωνιζέσθην
Plural ᾠωνιζόμεθα ᾠωνίζεσθε ᾠωνίζοντο

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

  • οὐ τοῦτό ἐστιν, ἐν ᾧ πίνει ὁ κύριόσ μου̣ αὐτὸσ δὲ οἰωνισμῷ οἰωνίζεται ἐν αὐτῷ. πονηρὰ συντετελέκατε, ἃ πεποιήκατε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:5)
  • ἀμφότερα δ’ οἰωνίζομαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 97 1:6)
  • "διὰ τί Κόιντοσ Μέτελλοσ ἀρχιερεὺσ γενόμενοσ καὶ τἄλλα δοκῶν φρόνιμοσ εἶναι καὶ πολιτικὸσ ἀνὴρ ἐκώλυεν οἰωνίζεσθαι μετὰ τὸν Σεξτίλιον μῆνα τὸν νῦν Αὔγουστον προσαγορευόμενον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 381)
  • "δοκῶν φρόνιμοσ εἶναι καὶ πολιτικὸσ ἀνὴρ ἐκώλυεν οἰωνίζεσθαι μετὰ τὸν Σεξτίλιον μῆνα τὸν νῦν Αὔγουστον προσαγορευόμενον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 382)
  • ἔθοσ δ’ ἐστὶ τοῖσ ἄρχουσιν ἐσ τὴν βουλὴν ἐσιοῦσιν οἰωνίζεσθαι προσιοῦσι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 16 11:8)

Synonyms

  1. to take omens from the flight and cries of birds

Derived

Similar forms

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

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