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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

  • Ἰσοκράτησ ἓξ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα ἔτη γεγονὼσ τὸν πανηγυρικὸν ἔγραφε λόγον, περὶ ἔτη δ’ ἑνὸσ ἀποδέοντα ἑκατὸν γεγονὼσ ὡσ ᾔσθετο Ἀθηναίουσ ὑπὸ Φιλίππου ἐν τῇ περὶ Χαιρώνειαν μάχῃ νενικημένουσ, ποτνιώμενοσ τὸν Εὐριπίδειον στίχον προηνέγκατο εἰσ ἑαυτὸν ἀναφέρων, Σιδώνιὸν ποτ’ ἄστυ Κάδμοσ ἐκλιπών καὶ ἐπειπὼν ὡσ δουλεύσει ἡ Ἑλλάσ, ἐξέλιπε τὸν βίον. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 23:6)
  • "εἶθ’ ἧκε δεύτερον ποτνιώμενοσ. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 276)
  • κἂν μὴ κελευσθῇ, δακνόμενοσ, μᾶλλον δ’ ὅλωσ ἐξαθυμῶν καὶ ποτνιώμενοσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 21 6:1)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν μετὰ δακρύων ποτνιώμενοσ καὶ τοῦ συγγενοῦσ τὴν εὔνοιαν καὶ πίστιν τοῦ θείου προσκαλῶν ἐπέσκηπτε μὴ ἠτιμῶσθαι ἀξιῶν, κἀκεῖνοι ὡμολόγουν οὐ παραβήσεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 211:1)

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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