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ὀψωνέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀψωνέω ὀψωνήσω

Structure: ὀψωνέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to buy fish and dainties

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ὀψωνῶ ὀψωνεῖς ὀψωνεῖ
Dual ὀψωνεῖτον ὀψωνεῖτον
Plural ὀψωνοῦμεν ὀψωνεῖτε ὀψωνοῦσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ὀψωνῶ ὀψωνῇς ὀψωνῇ
Dual ὀψωνῆτον ὀψωνῆτον
Plural ὀψωνῶμεν ὀψωνῆτε ὀψωνῶσιν*
OptativeSingular ὀψωνοῖμι ὀψωνοῖς ὀψωνοῖ
Dual ὀψωνοῖτον ὀψωνοίτην
Plural ὀψωνοῖμεν ὀψωνοῖτε ὀψωνοῖεν
ImperativeSingular ὀψώνει ὀψωνείτω
Dual ὀψωνεῖτον ὀψωνείτων
Plural ὀψωνεῖτε ὀψωνούντων, ὀψωνείτωσαν
Infinitive ὀψωνεῖν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ὀψωνων ὀψωνουντος ὀψωνουσα ὀψωνουσης ὀψωνουν ὀψωνουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ὀψωνοῦμαι ὀψωνεῖ, ὀψωνῇ ὀψωνεῖται
Dual ὀψωνεῖσθον ὀψωνεῖσθον
Plural ὀψωνούμεθα ὀψωνεῖσθε ὀψωνοῦνται
SubjunctiveSingular ὀψωνῶμαι ὀψωνῇ ὀψωνῆται
Dual ὀψωνῆσθον ὀψωνῆσθον
Plural ὀψωνώμεθα ὀψωνῆσθε ὀψωνῶνται
OptativeSingular ὀψωνοίμην ὀψωνοῖο ὀψωνοῖτο
Dual ὀψωνοῖσθον ὀψωνοίσθην
Plural ὀψωνοίμεθα ὀψωνοῖσθε ὀψωνοῖντο
ImperativeSingular ὀψωνοῦ ὀψωνείσθω
Dual ὀψωνεῖσθον ὀψωνείσθων
Plural ὀψωνεῖσθε ὀψωνείσθων, ὀψωνείσθωσαν
Infinitive ὀψωνεῖσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ὀψωνουμενος ὀψωνουμενου ὀψωνουμενη ὀψωνουμενης ὀψωνουμενον ὀψωνουμενου

Future tense

Imperfect 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

  • βάτραχον ἔνθ’ ἂν ἴδῃσ, ὀψώνει καὶ γαστρίον αὐτοῦ σκεύασον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 26 2:3)
  • τὴν δὲ τοῦ γλαύκου κεφαλὴν ἐπαινῶν ὁ Ἀρχέστρατόσ φησιν ἀλλά μοι ὀψώνει γλαύκου κεφαλὴν ἐν Ὀλύνθῳ καὶ Μεγάροισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 45 1:1)
  • κἀν Θάσῳ ὀψώνει τρίγλην κου’ χείρονα λήψῃ ταύτησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 127 1:1)
  • "ἄλλωσ γὰρ ἡμῖν προσπαίζουσιν οἱ λέγοντεσ Δελφοῖσι θύσασ αὐτὸσ ὀψωνεῖ κρέασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 16:5)
  • Πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐπιτιμῶντασ ὅτι πολυτελῶσ ὀψωνεῖ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. h'. ARISTIPPOS 20:14)

Derived

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

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