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θανατάω

α-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θανατάω

Structure: θανατά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to desire to die

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular θανάτω θανάτᾳς θανάτᾳ
Dual θανάτᾱτον θανάτᾱτον
Plural θανάτωμεν θανάτᾱτε θανάτωσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular θανάτω θανάτῃς θανάτῃ
Dual θανάτητον θανάτητον
Plural θανάτωμεν θανάτητε θανάτωσιν*
OptativeSingular θανάτῳμι θανάτῳς θανάτῳ
Dual θανάτῳτον θανατῷτην
Plural θανάτῳμεν θανάτῳτε θανάτῳεν
ImperativeSingular θανᾶτᾱ θανατᾶτω
Dual θανάτᾱτον θανατᾶτων
Plural θανάτᾱτε θανατῶντων, θανατᾶτωσαν
Infinitive θανάτᾱν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
θανατων θανατωντος θανατωσα θανατωσης θανατων θανατωντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular θανάτωμαι θανάτᾳ θανάτᾱται
Dual θανάτᾱσθον θανάτᾱσθον
Plural θανατῶμεθα θανάτᾱσθε θανάτωνται
SubjunctiveSingular θανάτωμαι θανάτῃ θανάτηται
Dual θανάτησθον θανάτησθον
Plural θανατώμεθα θανάτησθε θανάτωνται
OptativeSingular θανατῷμην θανάτῳο θανάτῳτο
Dual θανάτῳσθον θανατῷσθην
Plural θανατῷμεθα θανάτῳσθε θανάτῳντο
ImperativeSingular θανάτω θανατᾶσθω
Dual θανάτᾱσθον θανατᾶσθων
Plural θανάτᾱσθε θανατᾶσθων, θανατᾶσθωσαν
Infinitive θανάτᾱσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
θανατωμενος θανατωμενου θανατωμενη θανατωμενης θανατωμενον θανατωμενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐθανᾶτων ἐθανᾶτᾱς ἐθανᾶτᾱν*
Dual ἐθανάτᾱτον ἐθανατᾶτην
Plural ἐθανάτωμεν ἐθανάτᾱτε ἐθανᾶτων
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐθανατῶμην ἐθανάτω ἐθανάτᾱτο
Dual ἐθανάτᾱσθον ἐθανατᾶσθην
Plural ἐθανατῶμεθα ἐθανάτᾱσθε ἐθανάτωντο

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

  • τούτων οὖν ἁπάντων ἕνεκα πόσων θανάτων τὸ Ταῦ ἄξιον εἶναι νομίζετε; (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 12:6)
  • ἀπέθανεν ὑμῖν ἄτεκνοσ, λελυπημένοσ, ὀδυρόμενοσ, δακρύων, πεπενθηκὼσ πένθοσ ὀλιγοχρόνιον μέν, ἀλλ’ ἱκανὸν πατρί, καὶ τὸ δεινότατον, αὐτὸσ ὑφ’ αὑτοῦ, ὅσπερ θανάτων οἴκτιστοσ καὶ πολλῷ χαλεπώτεροσ ἢ εἰ ὑπ’ ἄλλου γίγνοιτο. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 18:7)
  • α# Παλλὰσ Τριτογένει’, ἄνασσ1’ Ἀθηνᾶ,2 ὄρθου τήνδε πόλιν τε καὶ πολίτασ, ἄτερ ἀλγέων καὶ στάσεων καὶ θανάτων ἀώρων σύ τε καὶ πατήρ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 503)
  • ἤδη οὖν πολλοὶ πολλάκισ ἑώρανται τῶν αἰχμαλώτων στρέβλασ καὶ παντοίων θανάτων τρόπουσ ἐν θεάτροισ ὑπομένοντεσ ἐπὶ τῷ μηδὲν ῥῆμα προέσθαι παρὰ τοὺσ νόμουσ καὶ τὰσ μετὰ τούτων ἀναγραφάσ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 51:1)
  • αὐτίκα γοῦν ὁ μὲν ἀφελὴσ λέγει, παρελθὼν ταῦτα εἶπεν, ὁ δὲ Δημοσθένησ, ἀναστὰσ εἶπεν πολλῶν, ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ θεοί, θανάτων ἀξίουσ λόγουσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. to desire to die

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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