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θάω

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θάω

Structure: θά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: epic for the prose qhla/zw

Sense

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

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

  • καὶ ὁ τύραννοσ Ἀντίοχοσ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆσ τετιμώρηται καὶ ἀποθανὼν κολάζεται. ὡσ γὰρ οὐδὲν οὐδαμῶσ ἴσχυσεν ἀναγκάσαι τοὺσ Ἱεροσολυμίτασ ἀλλοφυλῆσαι καὶ τῶν πατρίων ἐθῶν ἐκδιαιτηθῆναι, τότε δὴ ἀπάρασ ἀπὸ τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων ἐστρατοπέδευσεν ἐπὶ Πέρσασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:5)
  • καὶ εἰκότωσ, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, τοιαῦτά σοι τὰ γιγνόμενα φαίνεται, ξένα γε ὄντα καὶ πάμπολυ τῶν Σκυθικῶν ἐθῶν ἀπᾴδοντα, καθάπερ καὶ ὑμῖν πολλὰ εἰκὸσ εἶναι μαθήματα καὶ ἐπιτηδεύματα τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἡμῖν ἀλλόκοτα εἶναι δόξαντα ἄν, εἴ τισ ἡμῶν ὥσπερ σὺ νῦν ἐπισταίη αὐτοῖσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 6:1)
  • ἐοίκασ, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, μηδέπω ἐννενοηκέναι πολιτείασ ὀρθῆσ πέρι μηδὲν οὐ γὰρ ἂν τὰ κάλλιστα τῶν ἐθῶν ἐν ψόγῳ ἐτίθεσο. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 14:1)
  • διὸ καὶ σὲ μάλιστα φίλον ἐξ ἁπάντων Ἀθηναίων καὶ ξένον προειλόμην κατὰ κλέοσ, ἐπείπερ ἤκουον νόμων τε συγγραφέα τινὰ εἶναι σε καὶ ἐθῶν τῶν ἀρίστων εὑρετὴν καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων ὠφελίμων εἰσηγητήν, καὶ ὅλωσ πολιτείασ τινὸσ συναρμοστήν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 14:4)
  • δοκεῖτε δέ μοι, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Δελφοί, ἄριστα βουλεύσεσθαι περὶ τῶν παρόντων, εἰ λογίσαισθε ὑπὲρ ὅσων καὶ ἡλίκων ἐστὶν ἡ σκέψισ, πρῶτον μὲν ὑπὲρ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ θυσιῶν καὶ ἀναθημάτων καὶ ἐθῶν ἀρχαίων καὶ θεσμῶν παλαιῶν καὶ δόξησ τοῦ μαντείου, ἔπειτα ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ ὅλησ καὶ τῶν συμφερόντων τῷ τε κοινῷ ἡμῶν καὶ ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ Δελφῶν, ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τῆσ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ εὐκλείασ ἢ κακοδοξίασ· (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 10:1)

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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