Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • πρὸσ ταῦτα μίμνε καὶ θεοὺσ ἐγχωρίουσ λιταῖσ παραιτοῦ τῶν σ’ ἔρωσ ἔχει τυχεῖν. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 2:27)
  • τοὺσ δὲ βεβήλουσ καὶ γραώδεισ μύθουσ παραιτοῦ. (PROS TIMOQEON A, chapter 4 8:1)
  • νεωτέρασ δὲ χήρασ παραιτοῦ· (PROS TIMOQEON A, chapter 4 31:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ μωρὰσ καὶ ἀπαιδεύτουσ ζητήσεισ παραιτοῦ, εἰδὼσ ὅτι γεννῶσι μάχασ· (PROS TIMOQEON B, chapter 1 45:1)

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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