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πισσόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πισσόομαι

Structure: πισσό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: pi/ssa

Sense

  1. to remove the hair by means of a pitch-plaster

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular πίσσουμαι πίσσοι πίσσουται
Dual πίσσουσθον πίσσουσθον
Plural πισσοῦμεθα πίσσουσθε πίσσουνται
SubjunctiveSingular πίσσωμαι πίσσοι πίσσωται
Dual πίσσωσθον πίσσωσθον
Plural πισσώμεθα πίσσωσθε πίσσωνται
OptativeSingular πισσοίμην πίσσοιο πίσσοιτο
Dual πίσσοισθον πισσοίσθην
Plural πισσοίμεθα πίσσοισθε πίσσοιντο
ImperativeSingular πίσσου πισσοῦσθω
Dual πίσσουσθον πισσοῦσθων
Plural πίσσουσθε πισσοῦσθων, πισσοῦσθωσαν
Infinitive πίσσουσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
πισσουμενος πισσουμενου πισσουμενη πισσουμενης πισσουμενον πισσουμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπισσοῦμην ἐπίσσου ἐπίσσουτο
Dual ἐπίσσουσθον ἐπισσοῦσθην
Plural ἐπισσοῦμεθα ἐπίσσουσθε ἐπίσσουντο

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

  • ὀσπρίων κάκιστον κύαμοσ καὶ τὰ τοῦδε εἴδεα, πισσοὶ, καὶ ὠχροὶ, καὶ δολιχοί · δεύτερον φακοὶ, οἵ γε ἔχουσι μέν τινασ ἀρετὰσ πέψιόσ τε καὶ ἐκκρίσιοσ, κεφαλῆσ δὲ πλήσμιοι καὶ πόνου ποιητικοί· πλὴν ἑψηθέντεσ ξὺν πεπέρι οὐκ ἀποξενωτέοι· χόνδροι δὲ οἵ τε πλυτοὶ χαρίεντεσ ξὺν οἴνῳ, καὶ μέλιτι ὅσον ἡδῦναι· καὶ τὸ ἐκ τουτέων Ῥόφημα καὶ οἱ ξὺν ἁπλοῖσι ζωμοῖσι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 56)

Synonyms

  1. to remove the hair by means of a pitch-plaster

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

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