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σάω

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σάω

Structure: σά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to sift, bolt

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

  • ἐν δ’ ὀφίων κεφαλαὶ δεινῶν ἔσαν, οὔ τι φατειῶν, δώδεκα, ταὶ φοβέεσκον ἐπὶ χθονὶ φῦλ’ ἀνθρώπων, οἵ τινεσ ἀντιβίην πόλεμον Διὸσ υἱῖ φέροιεν· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 15:1)
  • ἔσαν ἠδὲ λεόντων ἐσ σφέασ δερκομένων, κοτεόντων θ’ ἱεμένων τε. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 16:2)
  • ἄνδρεσ δ’, οἳ πρεσβῆεσ ἔσαν γῆράσ τε μέμαρπεν, ἀθρόοι ἔκτοσθεν πυλέων ἔσαν, ἂν δὲ θεοῖσι χεῖρασ ἔχον μακάρεσσι, περὶ σφετέροισι τέκεσσι δειδιότεσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 25:1)
  • τὸ δὲ παλαιὸν καὶ παρ’ Αἰγυπτίοισιν ἀξόανοι νηοὶ ἔσαν. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. to sift

Related

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

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