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.
- ἓν δὲ τοῦτο διισχυρίζομαι, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι μεγάλωσ ἐπιτυχεῖν ἐν οὐδενὶ τρόπῳ μὴ τοιαῦτα τολμῶντα καὶ παραβαλλόμενον, ἐν οἷσ καὶ σφάλλεσθαι ἐστὶν ἀναγκαῖον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 12:3)
- σύ τε γὰρ ὁμολογεῖσ ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι τὸν ἐπιβαλλόμενον μεγάλοισ καὶ σφάλλεσθαί ποτε, ἐγώ τέ φημι τῆσ ὑψηλῆσ καὶ μεγαλοπρεποῦσ καὶ παρακεκινδυνευμένησ φράσεωσ ἐφιέμενον Πλάτωνα μὴ περὶ πάντα τὰ μέρη κατορθοῦν, πολλοστὴν μέντοι μοῖραν ἔχειν τῶν κατορθουμένων τὰ διαμαρτανόμενα ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 13:2)
- καὶ κίβδηλον ἐχόντων τὸ γένοσ σφάλλεσθαι καὶ ταπεινοῦσθαι πέφυκε, καὶ μάλ’ ὀρθῶσ ὁ λέγων ποιητήσ φησι δουλοῖ γὰρ ἄνδρα, κἂν θρασύσπλαγχνόσ τισ ᾖ, ὅταν συνειδῇ μητρὸσ ἢ πατρὸσ κακά ὥσπερ ἀμέλει μεγαλαυχίασ ἐμπίπλανται καὶ φρυάγματοσ οἱ γονέων διασήμων. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 2 5:1)
- Καῖσαρ δὲ τοῖσ ἀρίστοισ τῶν φιλοσόφων καὶ μαθηματικῶν τὸ πρόβλημα προθείσ ἐκ τῶν ὑποκειμένων ἤδη μεθόδων ἔμιξεν ἰδίαν τινὰ καὶ διηκριβωμένην μᾶλλον ἐπανόρθωσιν, ᾗ χρώμενοι μέχρι νῦν Ῥωμαῖοι δοκοῦσιν ἧττον ἑτέρων σφάλλεσθαι περὶ τὴν ἀνωμαλίαν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 59 3:1)
- "ἀραιῷ μὲν γὰρ ὄντι καὶ συγκεχυμένῳ μὴ μένειν ἀλλὰ σφάλλεσθαι προσήκει· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 5 1:8)
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)