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ὑπεῖπον

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεῖπον ὑπερῶ ὑπείρηκα

Structure:

Etym.: aor2 with no pres. in use, u(pagoreu/w being used instead

Sense

  1. to say as a foundation or preface, to premise, suggest
  2. to subjoin, add
  3. to suggest an explanation, explain, interpret

Conjugation

Aorist tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ύ̔πειπον ύ̔πειπες ύ̔πειπεν*
Dual ὑπείπετον ὑπειπέτην
Plural ὑπείπομεν ὑπείπετε ύ̔πειπον
ImperativeSingular ὑπείπε ὑπειπέτω
Dual ὑπείπετον ὑπειπέτων
Plural ὑπείπετε ὑπειπόντων

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

  • ὥστ’ οὐκ ἂν ἀί̈δρισ ὑπείποισ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode, anapests5)
  • πρὶν εἰσελθεῖν εἰσ τὴν βουλὴν ἐμὲ καὶ γενέσθαι λόγον ὁντινοῦν περὶ τούτων, ἦσαν δ’ ἀρχαιρεσίαι κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον πρυτανεῖαι, προὐβάλετό με ἡ βουλὴ δυοῖν καὶ τριῶν ὑπειπόντων. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 22:7)
  • ἐμοὶ γὰρ, ὦ δέσποτα Ἀσκληπιὲ, πολλὰ καὶ παντοῖα, ὥσπερ ὑπεῖπον, παρὰ σοῦ καὶ τῆσ σῆσ φιλανθρωπίασ γεγένηται, μέγιστον δὲ καὶ πλείστησ χάριτοσ ἄξιον καὶ σχεδὸν ὡσ εἰπεῖν οἰκειότατον οἱ λόγοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:15)

Synonyms

  1. to subjoin

  2. to suggest an explanation

Related

Similar forms

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

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