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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

  • δέον γὰρ ἀποθεραπεύειν τὸν ὄχλον ὀργῆσ εἰληφότα δικαίαν πρόφασιν, εἴξαντα μὲν ἐν τῷ παραχρῆμα χρόνῳ, ὕστερον δὲ τὰ μὲν ἀπολογούμενον, τὰ δὲ παραιτούμενον, τὰ δ’ ἑτέραισ τισὶν εὐεργεσίαισ ἀναλαβόντα, ἐπὶ τὸ βιαιότερον ἐνεχθεὶσ εἰσ ἀπόνοιαν αὐτοὺσ ἠνάγκασε τραπέσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 38 4:3)
  • θῦσαι δὲ αὐτὸν καὶ Πριάμῳ ἐπὶ τοῦ βωμοῦ τοῦ Διὸσ τοῦ Ἑρκείου λόγοσ κατέχει, μῆνιν Πριάμου παραιτούμενον τῷ Νεοπτολέμου γένει, ὃ δὴ ἐσ αὐτὸν καθῆκεν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 11 8:2)
  • πλὴν εἰ γένοιτο, ἵνα μὴ παρῶ τῷ δήμῳ μηδὲ ἕξουσιν οἱ συκοφαντούμενοι τὸν παραιτούμενον ἢ συναλγοῦντα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 12:3)
  • τὸν τοίνυν Φήμιον ἐν τῇ τῶν μνηστήρων σφαγῇ πεποίηκε τὸ ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ παραιτούμενον καὶ λέγοντα αὐτοδίδακτοσ δ’ εἰμί· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 23:9)

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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