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ὑποκορίζομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: hypokorizomai

Principal Part: ὑποκορίζομαι ὑποκορίσομαι

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

Sense

  1. to talk child's language
  2. to call by endearing names
  3. to call by a fair name, gloss over or palliate
  4. to call, by a bad name, to nickname
  5. to use diminutives

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

  • καὶ νὴ Δί εἰ λυπουμένην γ αἴσθοιτό με, νηττάριον ἂν καὶ φάττιον ὑπεκορίζετο. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:7)
  • τῆς δὲ ψυχῆς ἀλλαχόθεν ἡκούσης δεῦρο , τὴν γένεσιν ἀποδημίαν ὑποκορίζεται τῷ πραοτάτῳ τῶν ὀνομάτων: (Plutarch, De exilio, section 17 10:2)
  • ὅταν δὲ δακρύοις ἐλεγχόμενοι καὶ τρόμοις καὶ χρόας μεταβολαῖς ἀντὶ λύπης καὶ φόβου δηγμούς τινας καὶ συνθροήσεις λέγωσι καὶ προθυμίας τὰς ἐπιθυμίας ὑποκορίζωνται, σοφιστικὰς δοκοῦσιν οὐ φιλοσόφους διακρούσεις καὶ ἀποδράσεις ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων μηχανᾶσθαι διὰ τῶν ὀνομάτων. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 94)
  • ἃ δ οὖ οἱ νεώτεροι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους λέγουσι τὰς τῶν πραγμάτων δυσχερείας ὀνόμασι χρηστοῖς καὶ φιλανθρώποις ἐπικαλύπτοντας ἀστείως ὑποκορίζεσθαι, τὰς μὲν πόρνας ἑταίρας, τοὺς δὲ φόρους συντάξεις, φυλακὰς δὲ τὰς φρουρὰς τῶν πόλεων, οἴκημα δὲ τὸ δεσμωτήριον καλοῦντας, πρώτου Σόλωνος ἦν, ὡς ἐοίκε, σόφισμα τὴν τῶν χρεῶν ἀποκοπὴν σεισάχθειαν ὀνομάσαντος. (Plutarch, , chapter 15 2:3)
  • ἔστιν αὖ τὸ ὑποκορίζεσθαι: (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. to call by endearing names

  2. to call

Derived

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

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