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ποτάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποτάομαι

Structure: ποτά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fly about, to fly, to be upon the wing
  2. to hover
  3. to be on the wing, be fluttered

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular πότωμαι πότᾳ πότᾱται
Dual πότᾱσθον πότᾱσθον
Plural ποτῶμεθα πότᾱσθε πότωνται
SubjunctiveSingular πότωμαι πότῃ πότηται
Dual πότησθον πότησθον
Plural ποτώμεθα πότησθε πότωνται
OptativeSingular ποτῷμην πότῳο πότῳτο
Dual πότῳσθον ποτῷσθην
Plural ποτῷμεθα πότῳσθε πότῳντο
ImperativeSingular πότω ποτᾶσθω
Dual πότᾱσθον ποτᾶσθων
Plural πότᾱσθε ποτᾶσθων, ποτᾶσθωσαν
Infinitive πότᾱσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ποτωμενος ποτωμενου ποτωμενη ποτωμενης ποτωμενον ποτωμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐποτῶμην ἐπότω ἐπότᾱτο
Dual ἐπότᾱσθον ἐποτᾶσθην
Plural ἐποτῶμεθα ἐπότᾱσθε ἐπότωντο

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

  • ὃ δ’ ὥσ τε νόημ’ ἐποτᾶτο· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 24:5)
  • ἀρθεὶσ ἐξ αὔρησ λεπτῆσ ἐποτᾶτο δι’ αἴθρησ Χαιρήμων, ἀχύρου πολλὸν ἐλαφρότεροσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1061)

Synonyms

  1. to fly about

  2. to hover

  3. to be on the wing

Derived

Similar forms

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

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