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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

  • νῦν δ’ ὥσπερ εἰσ τὰσ ἐφημερίδασ φιλοσοφοῦντεσ δαπάνην ἀφαιροῦσι τῶν δείπνων ἐν τοῖσ ἀχρήστοισ καὶ περιττοῖσ, τὸ δ’ ἀνήμερον τῆσ πολυτελείασ καὶ φονικὸν οὐ παραιτοῦνται. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 6 3:1)
  • καὶ διαπτύουσι καὶ παραιτοῦνται προσφερόντων καὶ βιαζομένων, εἶτα, τῆσ κράσεωσ μεταβαλούσησ καὶ πνεύματοσ χρηστοῦ καὶ γλυκέοσ αἵματοσ ἐγγενομένου καὶ θερμότητοσ; (Plutarch, De virtute et vitio, chapter, section 4 3:1)
  • παραιτοῦνται δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐγκύκλια μαθήματα. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. q'. MENEDHMOS 2:5)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ παρεγυμνώθη διότι τὴν τιμωρίαν παραιτοῦνται, καί τισ ἐκ τῶν καθημένων εἶπεν βάλλε, πάντασ ἅμα κατέλευσαν τοὺσ προπορευθέντασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 80 9:1)

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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