Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

συσπειράομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συσπειράομαι συεσπείραμαι

Structure: συ (Prefix) + σπειρά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be formed in close order, to march in such order
  2. to be coiled up

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

  • "ἄλλοτε γὰρ ἄλλοσ ἐστὶ ταῖσ χρείαισ διὰ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ καὶ τὰσ τύχασ, ὥσπερ ὁ Αἰσώπειοσ κύων, ὃν οὑτοσί φησιν ἐν τῷ χειμῶνι συστρεφόμενον καὶ συσπειρώμενον διὰ τὸ ῥιγοῦν οἰκίαν ποιεῖν διανοεῖσθαι , θέρουσ δ’ αὖ πάλιν ἐκτεταμένον καθεύδοντα φαίνεσθαι μέγαν ἑαυτῷ καὶ μήτ’ ἀναγκαῖον ἡγεῖσθαι μήτε μικρὸν ἔργον οἰκίαν περιβαλέσθαι τοσαύτην. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 14 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. to be coiled up

Derived

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

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