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παραιτέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραιτέομαι παραιτήσομαι παραῄτημαι

Structure: παρ (Prefix) + αἰτέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to beg from, ask as a favour of
  2. to move by entreaty, obtain leave from, to intercede with, prevail upon, by supplications
  3. to entreat, to, to beg of, to obtain leave to do
  4. to decline, deprecate
  5. to ask, to excuse, decline, invitation, excused
  6. to divorce
  7. to intercede for, beg off

Conjugation

Present tense

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

  • μυρία δὲ καὶ ἄλλα ἔκ τε ποιητῶν καὶ συγγραφέων καὶ φιλοσόφων καταδεῖξαί σοι ἔχων, προτιμώντων τὸ ὑγιαίνειν, τοῦτο μὲν παραιτήσομαι, ὡσ μὴ εἰσ ἀπειροκαλίαν τινὰ μειρακιώδη ἐκπέσῃ μοι τὸ σύγγραμμα καὶ κινδυνεύωμεν ἄλλῳ ἥλῳ ἐκκρούειν τὸν ἧλον, ὀλίγα δέ σοι τῆσ ἀρχαίασ ἱστορίασ ὁπόσα μέμνημαι οἰκεῖα τῷ παρόντι προσγράψαι καλῶσ ἔχειν ὑπέλαβον. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 16:1)
  • "ἃ δὲ λέγετε παραιτήσομαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 16)
  • "καὶ ἐπεὶ θέλετε ἄριστα πράττειν, ἄριστα δὲ τὰ δίκαιά ἐστι καὶ ἰδιώτῃ καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον ἄρχοντι, πράξω ἃ θέλετε ἃ δὲ λέγετε παραιτήσομαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 1 1:2)
  • παραιτήσομαι δ’ ὑμᾶσ μηδὲν ἀχθεσθῆναί μοι, ἐὰν ἐπὶ συμφορᾶσ τινῶν γεγονότων ὀνομαστὶ μνησθῶ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 79:2)
  • τρίτον τοίνυν ἔτι σε σμικρόν τι παραιτήσομαι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 156:3)

Synonyms

  1. to beg from

  2. to decline

  3. to divorce

  4. to intercede for

Derived

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

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