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ῥαψῳδέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥαψῳδέω

Structure: ῥαψῳδέ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Etym.: r(ayw|do/s

Sense

  1. to recite epic poems
  2. to repeat by heart or rote, to declaim, to keep saying

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ῥαψῳδῶ ῥαψῳδεῖς ῥαψῳδεῖ
Dual ῥαψῳδεῖτον ῥαψῳδεῖτον
Plural ῥαψῳδοῦμεν ῥαψῳδεῖτε ῥαψῳδοῦσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ῥαψῳδῶ ῥαψῳδῇς ῥαψῳδῇ
Dual ῥαψῳδῆτον ῥαψῳδῆτον
Plural ῥαψῳδῶμεν ῥαψῳδῆτε ῥαψῳδῶσιν*
OptativeSingular ῥαψῳδοῖμι ῥαψῳδοῖς ῥαψῳδοῖ
Dual ῥαψῳδοῖτον ῥαψῳδοίτην
Plural ῥαψῳδοῖμεν ῥαψῳδοῖτε ῥαψῳδοῖεν
ImperativeSingular ῥαψῴδει ῥαψῳδείτω
Dual ῥαψῳδεῖτον ῥαψῳδείτων
Plural ῥαψῳδεῖτε ῥαψῳδούντων, ῥαψῳδείτωσαν
Infinitive ῥαψῳδεῖν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ῥαψῳδων ῥαψῳδουντος ῥαψῳδουσα ῥαψῳδουσης ῥαψῳδουν ῥαψῳδουντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ῥαψῳδοῦμαι ῥαψῳδεῖ, ῥαψῳδῇ ῥαψῳδεῖται
Dual ῥαψῳδεῖσθον ῥαψῳδεῖσθον
Plural ῥαψῳδούμεθα ῥαψῳδεῖσθε ῥαψῳδοῦνται
SubjunctiveSingular ῥαψῳδῶμαι ῥαψῳδῇ ῥαψῳδῆται
Dual ῥαψῳδῆσθον ῥαψῳδῆσθον
Plural ῥαψῳδώμεθα ῥαψῳδῆσθε ῥαψῳδῶνται
OptativeSingular ῥαψῳδοίμην ῥαψῳδοῖο ῥαψῳδοῖτο
Dual ῥαψῳδοῖσθον ῥαψῳδοίσθην
Plural ῥαψῳδοίμεθα ῥαψῳδοῖσθε ῥαψῳδοῖντο
ImperativeSingular ῥαψῳδοῦ ῥαψῳδείσθω
Dual ῥαψῳδεῖσθον ῥαψῳδείσθων
Plural ῥαψῳδεῖσθε ῥαψῳδείσθων, ῥαψῳδείσθωσαν
Infinitive ῥαψῳδεῖσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ῥαψῳδουμενος ῥαψῳδουμενου ῥαψῳδουμενη ῥαψῳδουμενης ῥαψῳδουμενον ῥαψῳδουμενου

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

  • οὐκ ἀπελείποντο δὲ ἡμῶν τῶν συμποσίων οὐδὲ ῥαψῳδοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 121)
  • ὅτι δ’ ἐκαλοῦντο οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ καὶ Ὁμηρισταὶ Ἀριστοκλῆσ εἴρηκεν ἐν τῷ περὶ Χορῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 12 1:1)
  • ἐκεῖνο δ’, ἔφη ὁ Ἀντισθένησ, λέληθέ σε, ὅτι καὶ οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ πάντεσ ἐπίστανται ταῦτα τὰ ἔπη; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 7:1)
  • ἀλλὰ σοφοὶ μέν πού ἐστε ὑμεῖσ οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ καὶ ὑποκριταὶ καὶ ὧν ὑμεῖσ ᾄδετε τὰ ποιήματα, ἐγὼ δὲ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ τἀληθῆ λέγω, οἱο͂ν εἰκὸσ ἰδιώτην ἄνθρωπον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 16:6)
  • οὐκοῦν ὑμεῖσ αὖ οἱ ῥαψῳδοὶ τὰ τῶν ποιητῶν ἑρμηνεύετε; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 31:4)

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

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