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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

  • κοινὸν δὲ αὑτοῖσ προσαιροῦνται Διογείτονα Ἀχαρνέα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 68:3)
  • ἐδίδασκον δὲ αὐτὴν ὅτι καὶ ἐν ταῖσ εὐνομουμέναισ πόλεσιν οὐκ ἀρκεῖν δοκεῖ τοῖσ πολίταισ, ἂν νόμουσ καλοὺσ γράψωνται, ἀλλὰ καὶ νομοφύλακασ προσαιροῦνται, οἵτινεσ ἐπισκοποῦντεσ τὸν μὲν ποιοῦντα τὰ νόμιμα ἐπαινοῦσιν, ἂν δέ τισ παρὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ ποιῇ, ζημιοῦσι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 9 16:2)

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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