Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑποφείδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποφείδομαι ὑποφείσομαι

Structure: ὑπο (Prefix) + φείδ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to spare a little

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • ταῦτα ξὺν πολλῷ ἱδρῶτι διεξελθὼν ἐδάκρυε μάλα γελοίωσ καὶ τὰσ τρίχασ ἐτίλλετο, ὑποφειδόμενοσ μὴ πάνυ ἕλκειν καὶ τέλοσ ἀπῆγον αὐτὸν λύζοντα μεταξὺ τῶν Κυνικῶν τινεσ παραμυθούμενοι. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 7:4)
  • "ἀνθρώπου δὲ πρὸσ οἶνον οὐκ ἔστ’ ἰδία κρᾶσισ ἣν τῷ συμποσιάρχῳ γιγνώσκειν προσήκει καὶ γιγνώσκοντι φυλάττειν, ἵν’ ὥσπερ ἁρμονικὸσ τὸν μὲν ἐπιτείνων τῇ πόσει τὸν δ’ ἀνιεὶσ καὶ ὑποφειδόμενοσ, εἰσ ὁμαλότητα καὶ συμφωνίαν ἐκ διαφορᾶσ καταστήσῃ τὰσ φύσεισ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 7:12)

Synonyms

  1. to spare a little

Derived

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

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