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προσαυαίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσαυαίνομαι

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

Sense

  1. to wither away upon

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

  • φοβερὰ δ’ ἐμοῖσιν ὄσσοισ ὀμίχλα προσῇξε πλήρησ δακρύων σὸν δέμασ εἰσιδούσᾳ πέτραισ προσαυαινόμενον ταῖσδ’ ἀδαμαντοδέτοισι λύμαισ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. to wither away upon

Derived

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

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