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ποτνιάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποτνιάομαι

Structure: ποτνιά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: from Potnia/s

Sense

  1. to cry or lament aloud, shriek, howl

Conjugation

Present 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 δὲ οὔ φασι τῇ γυναικὶ ταύτην γενέσθαι τὴν ὄψιν ἀλλὰ ἦν γάρ τι τῇ Καίσαροσ οἰκίᾳ προσκείμενον οἱο͂́ν ἐπὶ κόσμῳ καὶ σεμνότητι τῆσ βουλῆσ ψηφισαμένησ ἀκρωτήριον, ὡσ Λίβιοσ ἱστορεῖ, τοῦτο ὄναρ ἡ Καλπουρνία θεασαμένη καταρρηγνύμενον ἔδοξε ποτνιᾶσθαι καὶ δακρύειν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 63 6:1)
  • καταλαβὼν δὲ αὐτὸν ἐν ἐσχάτοισ ὄντα κλαίειν ἤρξατο [βλέποντοσ αὐτοῦ] καὶ ποτνιᾶσθαι καὶ πατέρα τε ἀποκαλεῖν καὶ ὅπλον· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 221:1)

Synonyms

  1. to cry or lament aloud

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

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