Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑποφθέγγομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποφθέγγομαι ὑποφθέγξομαι

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

Sense

  1. to speak in an undertone
  2. to reply

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

  • ὑποφθέγγεται δ’ αὐτῷ τὸ φάσμα· (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 36 4:2)
  • φλεγομένου δὲ τοῦ πύργου Ῥωμαῖοι μὲν ἀναχωροῦσι γεγηθότεσ ὡσ διεφθαρμένου καὶ Νίγεροσ, ὁ δὲ εἰσ τὸ μυχαίτατον τοῦ φρουρίου σπήλαιον καταπηδήσασ ἐκ τοῦ πύργου διασώζεται, καὶ μεθ’ ἡμέρασ τρεῖσ τοῖσ μετ’ ὀλοφυρμοῦ πρὸσ κηδείαν αὐτὸν ἐρευνῶσιν ὑποφθέγγεται. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 35:1)

Synonyms

  1. to speak in an undertone

  2. to reply

Derived

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

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