Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

προηγέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προηγέομαι προηγήσομαι

Structure: προ (Prefix) + ἡγέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to go first and lead the way, to be the leader, for, to guide
  2. to take the lead of
  3. to go before, precede
  4. going first, the van

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

  • ἡ προηγουμένη δὲ Παιδεία, ἡ ἀμυδρὰ δὲ καὶ ἀσαφὴσ τὸ χρῶμα ἡ Ἀλήθειά ἐστιν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 16:6)
  • καὶ ἅμα οὐδ’ ἡ προηγουμένη τοῦ πέμπετε συλλαβὴ μαλακὸν ἔχει τὸν ἦχον ἀλλ’ ὑποτραχύνει τὴν ἀκοὴν ἀρχομένη τε ἐξ ἀφώνου καὶ λήγουσα εἰσ ἡμίφωνον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2250)
  • τοῦτο τὸ σχῆμα τῆσ ἁρμονίασ ποιοῦσιν αἱ τῶν φωνηέντων γραμμάτων παραθέσεισ, ὅταν ἥ τε προηγουμένη λέξισ εἰσ ἓν τούτων λήγῃ καὶ ἡ συνάπτουσα ταύτῃ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπὸ τούτων τινὸσ λαμβάνῃ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 38 1:2)
  • αὕτη δὲ κατὰ Ῥωμαίουσ ἐστὶν ὁ προηγουμένη τῶν Κοιντιλίων νωνῶν ἡμέρα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 55 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. to go first and lead the way

  2. to take the lead of

  3. to go before

  4. going first

Derived

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

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