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ταυρόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταυρόομαι

Structure: ταυρό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: only in pres.

Sense

  1. to become savage as a bull, to cast savage glances

Conjugation

Present tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ταύρουμαι ταύροι ταύρουται
Dual ταύρουσθον ταύρουσθον
Plural ταυροῦμεθα ταύρουσθε ταύρουνται
SubjunctiveSingular ταύρωμαι ταύροι ταύρωται
Dual ταύρωσθον ταύρωσθον
Plural ταυρώμεθα ταύρωσθε ταύρωνται
OptativeSingular ταυροίμην ταύροιο ταύροιτο
Dual ταύροισθον ταυροίσθην
Plural ταυροίμεθα ταύροισθε ταύροιντο
ImperativeSingular ταύρου ταυροῦσθω
Dual ταύρουσθον ταυροῦσθων
Plural ταύρουσθε ταυροῦσθων, ταυροῦσθωσαν
Infinitive ταύρουσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ταυρουμενος ταυρουμενου ταυρουμενη ταυρουμενης ταυρουμενον ταυρουμενου

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐταυροῦμην ἐταύρου ἐταύρουτο
Dual ἐταύρουσθον ἐταυροῦσθην
Plural ἐταυροῦμεθα ἐταύρουσθε ἐταύρουντο

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

  • περιεκύκλωσάν με μόσχοι πολλοί, ταῦροι πίονεσ περιέσχον με. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 21:13)
  • καὶ βοσκηθήσονται οἱ διηρπασμένοι ὡσ ταῦροι, καὶ τὰσ ἐρήμουσ τῶν ἀπειλημμένων ἄρνεσ φάγονται. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 5:16)
  • οἱ ταῦροι ὑμῶν καὶ οἱ βόεσ οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν γῆν φάγονται ἄχυρα ἀναπεποιημένα ἐν κριθῇ λελικμημένα. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 30:24)
  • καὶ συμπεσοῦνται οἱ ἁδροὶ μετ̓ αὐτῶν καὶ οἱ κριοὶ καὶ οἱ ταῦροι, καὶ μεθυσθήσεται ἡ γῆ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματοσ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ στέατοσ αὐτῶν ἐμπλησθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 34:7)
  • ὅτι ηὐφραίνεσθε καὶ κατεκαυχᾶσθε διαρπάζοντεσ τὴν κληρονομίαν μου, διότι ἐσκιρτᾶτε ὡσ βοί̈δια ἐν βοτάνῃ καὶ ἐκερατίζετε ὡσ ταῦροι. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 27:11)

Synonyms

  1. to become savage as a bull

Derived

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

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