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θάω?

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration: thaō

Principal Part: θάω

Structure: θά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: epic for the prose θηλάζω

Sense

  1. to suck, he sucked, sucking
  2. to suckle

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular θῶ θᾷς θᾷ
Dual θᾶτον θᾶτον
Plural θῶμεν θᾶτε θῶσι(ν)
SubjunctiveSingular θῶ θῇς θῇ
Dual θῆτον θῆτον
Plural θῶμεν θῆτε θῶσι(ν)
OptativeSingular θῷμι θῷς θῷ
Dual θῷτον θῴτην
Plural θῷμεν θῷτε θῷεν
ImperativeSingular θᾶ θάτω
Dual θᾶτον θάτων
Plural θᾶτε θώντων, θάτωσαν
Infinitive θᾶν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
θων θωντος θωσα θωσης θων θωντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular θῶμαι θᾷ θᾶται
Dual θᾶσθον θᾶσθον
Plural θώμεθα θᾶσθε θῶνται
SubjunctiveSingular θῶμαι θῇ θῆται
Dual θῆσθον θῆσθον
Plural θώμεθα θῆσθε θῶνται
OptativeSingular θῴμην θῷο θῷτο
Dual θῷσθον θῴσθην
Plural θῴμεθα θῷσθε θῷντο
ImperativeSingular θῶ θάσθω
Dual θᾶσθον θάσθων
Plural θᾶσθε θάσθων, θάσθωσαν
Infinitive θᾶσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
θωμενος θωμενου θωμενη θωμενης θωμενον θωμενου

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ε῏θων ε῏θας ε῏θα(ν)
Dual ἔθατον ἐθᾶτην
Plural ἔθωμεν ἔθατε ε῏θων
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐθῶμην ἔθω ἔθατο
Dual ἔθασθον ἐθᾶσθην
Plural ἐθῶμεθα ἔθασθε ἔθωντο

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

  • πόλεμος δ ἐσκιατραφημένην σωμάτων ἕξιν οὐ δέχεται, ἰσχνὸς δὲ στρατιώτης πολεμικῶν ἀγώνων ἐθὰς ἀθλητῶν καὶ πολεμίων φάλαγγας διωθεῖ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 11 5:1)
  • τραφεὶς γὰρ ἐν ἤθεσιν ὑπὸ τυράννῳ ταπεινοῖς, καὶ βίου μὲν ἀνίσου καὶ καταφόβου, θεραπείας δὲ νεοπλούτου καὶ τρυφῆς ἀπειροκάλου καὶ διαίτης ἐν ἡδοναῖς καὶ πλεονεξίαις τιθεμένης τὸ καλὸν ἐθὰς καὶ μεστὸς γενόμενος, ὡς πρῶτον ἐγεύσατο λόγου καὶ φιλοσοφίας ἡγεμονικῆς πρὸς ἀρετήν, ἀνεφλέχθη τὴν ψυχὴν ταχύ, καὶ τῇ περὶ αὐτὸν εὐπειθείᾳ τῶν καλῶν ἀκάκως πάνυ καὶ νεωτερικῶς προσδοκήσας ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν λόγων ὅμοια πείσεσθαι Διονύσιον, ἐσπούδασε καὶ διεπράξατο ποιησάμενος σχολὴν αὐτὸν ἐντυχεῖν Πλάτωνι καὶ ἀκοῦσαι. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 4 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to suck

  2. to suckle

Derived

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

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