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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

  • Ἐὰν δὲ κερατίσῃ ταῦροσ ἄνδρα ἢ γυναῖκα καὶ ἀποθάνῃ, λίθοισ λιθοβοληθήσεται ὁ ταῦροσ, καὶ οὐ βρωθήσεται τὰ κρέα αὐτοῦ. ὁ δὲ κύριοσ τοῦ ταύρου ἀθῷοσ ἔσται. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 21:28)
  • ἐὰν δὲ γνωρίζηται ὁ ταῦροσ ὅτι κερατιστήσ ἐστι πρὸ τῆσ χθὲσ καὶ πρὸ τῆσ τρίτησ ἡμέρασ, καὶ διαμεμαρτυρημένοι ὦσι τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτοῦ, καὶ μὴ ἀφανίσῃ αὐτόν, ἀποτίσει ταῦρον ἀντὶ ταύρου, ὁ δὲ τετελευτηκὼσ αὐτῷ ἔσται. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 21:36)
  • πρωτότοκοσ ταύρου τὸ κάλλοσ αὐτοῦ, κέρατα μονοκέρωτοσ τὰ κέρατα αὐτοῦ. ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἔθνη κερατιεῖ ἅμα ἕωσ ἀπ̓ ἄκρου γῆσ. αὗται μυριάδεσ Ἐφραί̈μ, καὶ αὗται χιλιάδεσ Μανασσῆ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 33:17)
  • ναὶ μὴν καὶ ταῦρον ἐσ τιμὴν τοῦ ἠερίου ταύρου σεβίζονται, καὶ ὁ Ἆπισ αὐτοῖσ χρῆμα ἱερώτατον τὴν χώρην ἐπινέμεται καὶ οἱ ἐκεῖ μαντήιόν γε ^ ἀνατιθέασιν σημήιον τῆσ ἐκείνου τοῦ ταύρου μαντικῆσ. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 7:3)

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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