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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

  • "ἐπιμελεῖσθαι δὲ τὸν βασιλέα τὸν ἀεὶ βασιλεύοντα καὶ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ καὶ τοὺσ παρασίτουσ οὓσ ἂν ἐκ τῶν δήμων προσαιρῶνται καὶ τοὺσ γέροντασ καὶ τὰσ γυναῖκασ τὰσ πρωτοπόσεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 26 4:5)
  • Εὖ δὲ χρὴ τοῦτο εἰδέναι, ὅτι τισὶ τὰ Ῥυφήματα ἐν τῇσι νούσοισιν οὐ συμφέρει, ἀλλ’ ἄντικρυσ, ὅταν ταῦτα προσαίρωνται, παροξύνονταί σφισι οἵ τε πυρετοὶ καὶ τὰ ἀλγήματα· (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , vi.1)
  • Ξύμπασι δὲ ὁμοῦ ξύνεστι, ὦχροσ, δύσπνοια, βὴξ, ἄλλοτε καὶ ἄλλοτε νωθέεσ, ὄκνοσ πουλὺσ, ἀπόσιτοι · ἢν δέ τι προσαίρωνται, κἢν βραχὺ καὶ ἄφυσον, φυσώδεεσ, διατάσιεσ ὡσ ἀπὸ πλησμονῆσ· ἄνικμοι, διὸ οὐδὲ ἐπὶ λουτροῖσι ἰκμαλέοι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 23)
  • αὐαλέη μὲν γλῶσσα, ξηρὴ δὲ ἡ κοιλίη· ἰσχνοὶ, ἀπόσιτοι · κἤν τι προσαίρωνται, οὔτε πέψαι οὔτε ἀναλαβεῖν Ῥηί̈διοι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 86)
  • ἢν οὖν ὅδε νοσέῃ, μῖσοσ καὶ ἀποστροφὴ τῶν γευμάτων, οὐκ ἢν προσαίρωνται μόνον, ἀλλὰ κἢν ἀθέητα μὲν ᾖ τὰ σιτία. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 143)

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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