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σπειράομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπειράομαι

Structure: σπειρά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: spei=ra

Sense

  1. to be coiled or folded round.

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

  • εὖτ’ ἂν δὴ μετιόντι πατὴρ ἐμὸσ ἐγγυαλίξῃ ἐξ ὄφιοσ γενύων ὀλοοὺσ σπείρασθαι ὀδόντασ, δὴ τότε μέσσην νύκτα διαμμοιρηδὰ φυλάξασ, ἀκαμάτοιο ῥοῇσι λοεσσάμενοσ ποταμοῖο, οἰο͂σ ἄνευθ’ ἄλλων ἐνὶ φάρεσι κυανέοισιν βόθρον ὀρύξασθαι περιηγέα· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 17:13)

Synonyms

  1. to be coiled or folded round

Derived

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

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