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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

  • οἱ γὰρ μουσικοί, καθάπερ πολλάκισ Ἀριστόξενόσ φησι, τὸ σίγμα λέγειν παρῃτοῦντο διὰ τὸ σκληρόστομον εἶναι καὶ ἀνεπιτήδειον αὐλῷ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 30 3:3)
  • οἱ δὲ φίλοι τοῖσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ θύραισ φοιτῶσιν ἐνετύγχανον, καὶ παρῃτοῦντο συγγνώμην ἔχειν, ὡσ καὶ τότε Νικίου πρὸσ δημοσίασ χρείασ τινὰσ καὶ ἀσχολίασ ὄντοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 5 2:1)
  • "διὰ τί τοὺσ θριαμβεύσαντασ ἑστιῶντεσ ἐν δημοσίῳ παρῃτοῦντο τοὺσ ὑπάτουσ, καὶ πέμποντεσ παρεκάλουν μὴ ἐλθεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ δεῖπνον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 801)
  • "διὰ τί τοὺσ θριαμβεύσαντασ ἑστιῶντεσ ἐν δημοσίῳ παρῃτοῦντο τοὺσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 801)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ Κορινθίων πρέσβεισ δῶρα διδόντοσ αὐτοῦ παρῃτοῦντο διὰ τὸν νόμον, ὃσ οὐκ εἰά δῶρα λαμβάνειν παρὰ δυνάστου πρεσβεύοντασ, δεινὸν ἔφη πρᾶγμα ποιεῖν αὐτούσ, ὃ μόνον αἱ τυραννίδεσ ἀγαθὸν ἔχουσιν ἀναιροῦντασ καὶ διδάσκοντασ ὅτι καὶ τὸ εὖ παθεῖν ὑπὸ τυράννου φοβερόν ἐστιν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 121)

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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