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

  • ἐνδύου τῇ ψυχῇ, περισκόπει τὰ σαθρά, μὴ τίσ σοί ποθεν ὑποφθέγγηται κακία τὸ τοῦ τραγῳδοῦ ἄλλων ἰατρὸσ αὐτὸσ ἕλκεσι βρύων ἂν ἀπαίδευτον εἴπῃσ, ἐπίτεινε τὸ φιλομαθὲσ ἐν σεαυτῷ καὶ φιλόπονον· (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 4 6:2)
  • τῶν δὲ τοῦ κηπουροῦ κυναρίων κάτωθεν ἐκκαλουμένων αὐτόν ὑπεφθέγγετο τυφλὸν καὶ ἄσημον τὸ πρῶτον, εἶτα μᾶλλον ἐπέτεινε παρερχομένων· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 8 1:3)
  • ὑποφθέγγεται δ’ αὐτῷ τὸ φάσμα· (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 36 4:2)
  • "προσαγορευομένουσ, ἐνδυόμενον εἰσ τὰ σώματα τῶν προφητῶν ὑποφθέγγεσθαι, τοῖσ ἐκείνων στόμασι καὶ φωναῖσ χρώμενον ὀργάνοισ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 9 2:9)
  • "ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τῆσ ἀληθινῆσ φωνῆσ ἀκούοντεσ ὑπεφθέγγοντο τί οὖν αὕτη πρὸσ τὴν Παρμένοντοσ ὗν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 13:7)

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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