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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

  • Πολλαπλασίη μὲν οὖν κατὰ κοιλίην ἡ βλάβη ἐστὶν, ἢν ἐκ πολλῆσ κενεαγγείησ ἐξαπίνησ πλέον τοῦ μετρίου προσαίρηται ἁ̓τὰρ καὶ κατὰ τὸ ἄλλο σῶμα, ἢν ἐκ πολλῆσ ἡσυχίησ ἐξαίφνησ ἐσ πλείω πόνον ἔλθοι, πουλὺ πλείω βλαβείἠ, ἢ εἰ ἐκ πολλῆσ ἐδωδῆσ ἐσ κενεαγγείην μεταβάλλοι‧ δεῖ μέντοι καὶ τὸ σῶμὰ τουτέοισιν ἐλινύειν‧ καὶ ἢν ἐκ πολλῆσ ταλαιπωρίησ ἐξαπίνησ ἐσ σχολήν τε καὶ Ῥᾳθυμίην ἐμπέσῃ, δεῖ δὲ καὶ τουτέοισι τὴν κοιλίην ἐλινύειν ἐκ πλήθεοσ βρώμησ‧ ἢν δὲ μὴ, πόνον ἐν τῷ σώματι ἐμποιήσει καὶ βάροσ ὅλου τοῦ σώματοσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 12.8)

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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