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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

  • οὐ παραιτοῦμαι· (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 4:2)
  • οὐ παραιτοῦμαι. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 19)
  • σὲ δὲ παραιτοῦμαι τάδε, Λήδασ γένεθλον, εἰ κατῳκτίσθην ἄγαν, μέλλων Ἀχιλλεῖ θυγατέρ’ ἐκδώσειν ἐμήν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 3:7)
  • Σιγῆσ οὖν παρὰ πάντων γενομένησ, "ἄνδρεσ, εἶπον, ὁμόφυλοι, θανεῖν μέν, εἰ δίκαιόν ἐστιν, οὐ παραιτοῦμαι. (Flavius Josephus, 170:1)
  • Ἐπικουρείων δὲ χορόν, οἷσ οὐδὲν μέλει τούτων, παραιτοῦμαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2412)

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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