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πωλέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πωλέομαι

Structure: πωλέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: Frequent. of pole/omai

Sense

  1. to go up and down, go to and fro, to go or come frequently

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular πωλοῦμαι πωλεῖ, πωλῇ πωλεῖται
Dual πωλεῖσθον πωλεῖσθον
Plural πωλούμεθα πωλεῖσθε πωλοῦνται
SubjunctiveSingular πωλῶμαι πωλῇ πωλῆται
Dual πωλῆσθον πωλῆσθον
Plural πωλώμεθα πωλῆσθε πωλῶνται
OptativeSingular πωλοίμην πωλοῖο πωλοῖτο
Dual πωλοῖσθον πωλοίσθην
Plural πωλοίμεθα πωλοῖσθε πωλοῖντο
ImperativeSingular πωλοῦ πωλείσθω
Dual πωλεῖσθον πωλείσθων
Plural πωλεῖσθε πωλείσθων, πωλείσθωσαν
Infinitive πωλεῖσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
πωλουμενος πωλουμενου πωλουμενη πωλουμενης πωλουμενον πωλουμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπωλούμην ἐπωλοῦ ἐπωλεῖτο
Dual ἐπωλεῖσθον ἐπωλείσθην
Plural ἐπωλούμεθα ἐπωλεῖσθε ἐπωλοῦντο

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

  • προσόντοσ δὲ καὶ τοῦδε, χρήμασι δὲ νικωμένου, τὰ ξύμπαντα τούτου ἑνὸσ ἂν πωλοῖτο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 45 2:4)
  • ὅσῳ γε μὴν πλείουσ εἰσοικίζοιντό τε καὶ ἀφικνοῖντο, δῆλον ὅτι τοσούτῳ ἂν πλέον καὶ εἰσάγοιτο καὶ ἐξάγοιτο καὶ ἐκπέμποιτο καὶ πωλοῖτο καὶ μισθοφοροῖτο καὶ τελεσφοροίη. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 6:1)
  • τέταρτοι [δ’] οἱ περὶ τὰσ καπηλείασ καὶ μεταβολάσ, οἷσ μέτρων μέλει καὶ τῶν ὡραίων, ὅπωσ ἀπὸ συσσήμου πωλοῖτο. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 102:5)

Synonyms

  1. to go up and down

Derived

Similar forms

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

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