Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παραχράομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραχράομαι παραχρήσομαι

Structure: παραχρά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to use improperly, misuse, abuse
  2. to deal wrongly or unworthily
  3. to treat with contempt, disregard, of furious combatants, setting nothing by their life

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 μὲν οὐ χρῶνται οἱ δὲ παραχρῶνται, καθάπερ οὔδ’ ἑτέρου προσήκοντοσ; (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 84)
  • τῶν γὰρ πολλῶν, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ φησίν, οἱ μὲν οὐ χρῶνται τῷ πλούτῳ διὰ μικρολογίαν, οἱ δὲ παραχρῶνται δι’ ἀσωτίαν, καὶ δουλεύοντεσ οὗτοι μὲν ἀεὶ ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ταῖσ ἀσχολίαισ, διατελοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 3 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. to use improperly

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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