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προσαιρέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσαιρέομαι

Structure: προς (Prefix) + αἱρέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to choose for oneself, to take for one's companion or ally
  2. to choose in addition to

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

  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ὀλιγαρχίαισ ἢ προσαιρεῖσθαί τινασ ἐκ τοῦ πλήθουσ, ἢ κατασκευάσαντασ ἀρχεῖον οἱο͂ν ἐν ἐνίαισ πολιτείαισ ἐστὶν οὓσ καλοῦσι προβούλουσ καὶ νομοφύλακασ, περὶ τούτων χρηματίζειν περὶ ὧν ἂν οὗτοι προβουλεύσωσιν οὕτω γὰρ μεθέξει ὁ δῆμοσ τοῦ βουλεύεσθαι, καὶ λύειν οὐθὲν δυνήσεται τῶν περὶ τὴν πολιτείαν, ἔτι ἢ ταὐτὰ ψηφίζεσθαι τὸν δῆμον ἢ μηθὲν ἐναντίον τοῖσ εἰσφερομένοισ, ἢ τῆσ συμβουλῆσ μὲν μεταδιδόναι πᾶσι, βουλεύεσθαι δὲ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 234:1)

Synonyms

  1. to choose for oneself

  2. to choose in addition to

Derived

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

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