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ὀρχοῦμαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχοῦμαι ὀρχήσομαι ὠρχησάμην ὤρχημαι

Structure: ὀρχέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: o)/rxos

Sense

  1. I dance
  2. I represent by dancing or pantomime
  3. (figuratively) I leap, bound
  4. (active) I cause to dance

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ δίκαιον μηδὲ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων ὀρχήσεωσ ἀμνημονεῖν, ἣν οἱ εὐγενέστατοι αὐτῶν τῷ πολεμικωτάτῳ τῶν θεῶν Ἄρει, οἱ Σάλιοι καλούμενοι ἱερωσύνησ δὲ τοῦτο ὄνομα, ὀρχοῦνται, σεμνοτάτην τε ἅμα καὶ ἱερωτάτην. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 20:1)
  • οἱ Φαίακεσ δὲ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ καὶ ἄνευ σφαίρασ ὀρχοῦνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 271)
  • διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἀστραγαλίζουσιν ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ πολιτείᾳ καὶ ὀρχοῦνται καὶ σφαιρίζουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 33 2:1)
  • εἰσὶ δέ τινεσ οἵ φασι τὴν σίκιννιν ποιητικῶσ ὠνομάσθαι ἀπὸ τῆσ κινήσεωσ, ἣν καὶ οἱ σάτυροι ὀρχοῦνται ταχυτάτην οὖσαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 2:3)
  • ἔνοπλοι γὰρ αὐτὴν παῖδεσ ὀρχοῦνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 3:2)
  • καὶ ὀρχοῦνταί γε ταῦτα οἱ εὐγενέστατοι καὶ πρωτεύοντεσ ἐν ἑκάστῃ τῶν πόλεων, οὐχ ὅπωσ αἰδούμενοι ἀλλὰ καὶ μέγα φρονοῦντεσ ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι μᾶλλον ἤπερ ^ ἐπ’ εὐγενείαισ καὶ λειτουργίαισ καὶ ἀξιώμασι προγονικοῖσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 79:4)

Synonyms

  1. I dance

  2. I represent by dancing or pantomime

  3. I leap

  4. I cause to dance

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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