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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

  • κᾆτα δ’ ὡσ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ξυνῆλθεν οὑργάτησ λεώσ, τὸν τρόπον πωλούμενοσ τὸν αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐμάνθανεν, ἀλλ’ ἅτ’ ὢν ἄνευ γιγάρτων καὶ φιλῶν τὰσ ἰσχάδασ ἔβλεπεν πρὸσ τοὺσ λέγοντασ· (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, epirrheme16)
  • "καταφρονεῖ σου Διογένησ, ὃσ ὑπὸ τῶν λῃστῶν πωλούμενοσ ἐκήρυττε, ’τίσ ὠνήσασθαι βούλεται δεσπότην; (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 2:7)
  • "καταφρονεῖ σου Διογένησ, ὃσ ὑπὸ τῶν λῃστῶν πωλούμενοσ ἐκήρυττε τίσ ὠνήσασθαι βούλεται κύριον; (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 6:4)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν Πινδάρου Καινεὺσ βαλλόμενοσ οὐ τιτρώσκεται, ὁ δὲ τῶν Στωικῶν σοφὸσ ἐγκλειόμενοσ οὐ κωλύεται καὶ κατακρημνιζόμενοσ οὐκ ἀναγκάζεται καὶ στρεβλούμενοσ οὐ βασανίζεται καὶ πηρούμενοσ οὐ βλάπτεται καὶ πίπτων ἐν τῷ παλαίειν ἀήττητόσ ἐστι καὶ περιτειχιζόμενοσ ἀπολιόρκητοσ καὶ πωλούμενοσ; (Plutarch, Compendium Argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere, section 1 2:1)
  • Διογένησ δὲ πωλούμενοσ ἔσκωπτε τὸν κήρυκα κατακείμενοσ· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 4 1:4)

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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