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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

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

  • δόθ, ὡς περιπτυχαῖσι δὴ χέρας προσαρμόσας ἐμοῖς ἐν ἀγκῶσι τέκνα θῶμαι. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • ὤμοι, τίν ὑμῶν πρῶτον ἢ τίν ὕστατον πρὸς στέρνα θῶμαι· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 1:21)
  • ποῖον ἐπίπροσθεν νέφος θῶμαι, γέροντος ὀμμάτων φεύγων κόρας· (Euripides, episode, iambic 4:36)

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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