σφάλλω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
σφάλλω
Structure:
σφάλλ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: Root SFAL
Sense
- to make to fall, throw down, overthrow, by tripping up, to trip up in wrestling, to throw, on her beam-ends, throws, to be tripped up, reeling, staggering
- to cause to fall, overthrow, defeat, to be overthrown, to fall, fail, be undone, become helpless, mishap took place, I shall, fail
- to baffle, foil, balk, disappoint, to err, go wrong, be mistaken
- to be balked of or foiled in
Conjugation
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.
- ἀνδρὶ φιληκόῳ καὶ ἱστορικῷ παρ’ ὁντινοῦν τῶν φιλοσόφων, εὑρεῖν μὲν ἦν τὰ δέοντα καὶ νοῆσαι πάντων ἱκανώτατοσ ὁ Ἀλκιβιάδησ, ζητῶν δὲ μὴ μόνον ἃ δεῖ λέγειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡσ δεῖ τοῖσ ὀνόμασι καὶ τοῖσ ῥήμασιν, οὐκ εὐπορῶν δέ, πολλάκισ ἐσφάλλετο καὶ μεταξὺ λέγων ἀπεσιώπα καὶ διέλειπε, λέξεωσ διαφυγούσησ αὐτόν, ἀναλαμβάνων καὶ διασκοπούμενοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 10 3:1)
- "Ἐπαμινώνδασ δ’ ὁ Θηβαῖοσ σεμνότερον μὲν τούτων, οὐκ εὐσχημόνωσ δὲ περὶ τὰσ ὁμιλίασ ἐσφάλλετο τὴν γνώμην, εἴ τισ θεωροίη τὰ πραχθέντα αὐτῷ περὶ τὴν Λάκωνοσ γυναῖκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 582)
- ὁ γὰρ σωφρονῶν ὥστε τῷ δεσπότῃ τῶν ὅλων παραχωρεῖν τῆσ ἐξουσίασ οὐ δή που περὶ κληρονόμου κρίσιν ἐσφάλλετο, σωφρονῶν δ’ ᾑρεῖτο καὶ τὸν καθιστάμενον ὁ γινώσκων τὸν καθιστάντα. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 47:1)
- εἰ δ’ ἔσωζον μὲν οἱ κυβερνῆται πάντεσ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ ἐμπλέοντασ, ἔσωζον δ’ οἱ ἰατροὶ πάντεσ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ κάμνοντασ, ἐνίκων δ’ οἱ κρείττονεσ, ἐνίκων δ’ οἱ μείζονεσ, τὸ δ’ ἀεὶ τούτοισ πᾶσι προσῆν, μηδεὶσ δὲ ἐσφάλλετο τῶν ἀρξαμένων κατορθοῦν, εὐχὴ δὲ καὶ δύναμισ μηδὲν διέφερεν, ἀθάνατ’ ἂν πάντ’ ἦν τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πράγματα καὶ οὐδὲν ἂν εὐχῆσ ἴσωσ προσέδει, οὐδ’ ἂν κακτέκλυζεν ἡμᾶσ τῶν πίθων ἅτεροσ ὥσπερ νῦν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 144:8)
Derived
- ἀνασφάλλω (to rise from a fall or illness, to recover)
- ἀποσφάλλω (to lead astray, drive away, to baulk)
- διασφάλλω (to overturn utterly, to be disappointed of)
- παρασφάλλω (to make an arrow glance aside, to foil, of)
