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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

  • τρέφει με Θετταλόσ τισ ἄνθρωποσ βαρύσ, πλουτῶν, φιλάργυροσ δὲ κἀλιτήριοσ, ὀψοφάγοσ, ὀψωνῶν δὲ μέχρι τριωβόλου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 72 1:4)
  • ’ καὶ ὀψωνῶν δὲ ὑπομιμνῄσκειν τὸν κρεωπώλην, εἴ τι χρήσιμοσ αὐτῷ γέγονε, καὶ ἑστηκὼσ πρὸσ τῷ σταθμῷ μάλιστα μὲν κρέασ, εἰ δὲ μή, ὀστοῦν εἰσ τὸν ζωμὸν ἐμβαλεῖν, καὶ ἐὰν μὲν λάβῃ, εὖ ἔχει, εἰ δὲ μή, ἁρπάσασ ἀπὸ τῆσ τραπέζησ χολίκιον ἅμα γελῶν ἀπαλλάττεσθαι. (Theophrastus, Characters, 4:2)

Derived

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

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