Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἵνα θῶνται ἐπὶ τὸν Θεὸν τὴν ἐλπίδα αὐτῶν καὶ μὴ ἐπιλάθωνται τῶν ἔργων τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τὰσ ἐντολὰσ αὐτοῦ ἐκζητήσωσιν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 77:7)
  • Κρεώφυλοσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Ἐφεσίων ̔̀ Ὥροισ οἱ τὴν Ἔφεσον, φησί, κτίζοντεσ καὶ πολλὰ ταλαιπωρηθέντεσ ἀπορίᾳ τόπου τὸ τελευταῖον πέμψαντεσ εἰσ θεοῦ ἠρώτων ὅπου τὸ πόλισμα θῶνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 621)
  • τοῦ δὲ πολιτικοῦ δικαίου τὸ μὲν φυσικόν ἐστι τὸ δὲ νομικόν, φυσικὸν μὲν τὸ πανταχοῦ τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχον δύναμιν, καὶ οὐ τῷ δοκεῖν ἢ μή, νομικὸν δὲ ὃ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ μὲν οὐδὲν διαφέρει οὕτωσ ἢ ἄλλωσ, ὅταν δὲ θῶνται, διαφέρει, οἱο͂ν τὸ μνᾶσ λυτροῦσθαι, ἢ τὸ αἶγα θύειν ἀλλὰ μὴ δύο πρόβατα, ἔτι ὅσα ἐπὶ τῶν καθ’ ἕκαστα νομοθετοῦσιν, οἱο͂ν τὸ θύειν Βρασίδᾳ, καὶ τὰ ψηφισματώδη. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 94:4)
  • τῶν δὲ ἄλλων χρημάτων πάντων καὶ σκευῶν ὁπόσων ἑκάστοισι χρεία, πωλεῖν εἰσ τὴν κοινὴν ἀγορὰν φέροντασ εἰσ τὸν τόπον ἕκαστον, ἐν οἷσ ἂν νομοφύλακέσ τε καὶ ἀγορανόμοι, μετ’ ἀστυνόμων τεκμηράμενοι ἕδρασ πρεπούσασ, ὁρ́ουσ θῶνται τῶν ὠνίων, ἐν τούτοισ ἀλλάττεσθαι νόμισμά τε χρημάτων καὶ χρήματα νομίσματοσ, μὴ προϊέμενον ἄλλον ἑτέρῳ τὴν ἀλλαγήν· (Plato, Laws, book 8 144:1)
  • ἃ δ’ ἂν θῶνται ποιητέον τοῖσ ἀρχομένοισ, καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ δίκαιον; (Plato, Republic, book 1 293:1)

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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