ὑποσπάω
α-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὑποσπάω
ὑποσπάσω
Structure:
ὑπο
(Prefix)
+
σπά
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to draw away from under
- to withdraw secretly, withdrew, secretly
Conjugation
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.
- "ὁ δ’ Ἡρακλῆσ, οὔπω τὸν Προμηθέα λελυκὼσ οὐδὲ τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Χείρωνα καὶ Ἄτλαντα σοφισταῖσ διειλεγμένοσ ἀλλὰ νέοσ ὢν καὶ κομιδῇ Βοιώτιοσ, ἀναιρῶν τὴν διαλεκτικὴν καὶ καταγελῶν τοῦ εἰτὸ πρῶτον, τὸ δεύτερον ὑποσπᾶν ἔδοξε βίᾳ τὸν τρίποδα καὶ διαμάχεσθαι πρὸσ τὸν θεὸν ὑπὲρ τῆσ τέχνησ· (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 6 2:19)
- οὐ γάρ ἐστι τῆσ αὐτῆσ ψυχῆσ Ἀνδροτίωνα μὲν καὶ Μελάνωπον καὶ Γλαυκέτην ἐλεεῖν, ἃ κλέψαντεσ εἶχον εἰ καταθήσουσι, τουτωνὶ δὲ τοσούτων ὄντων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων πολιτῶν, ὧν ἐπὶ τὰσ οἰκίασ ἐβάδιζεσ σὺ τοὺσ ἕνδεκα καὶ τοὺσ ἀποδέκτασ ἔχων καὶ τοὺσ ὑπηρέτασ, μηδένα πώποτ’ ἐλεῆσαι, ἀλλὰ θύρασ ἀφαιρεῖν καὶ στρώμαθ’ ὑποσπᾶν καὶ διάκονον, εἴ τισ ἐχρῆτο, ταύτην ἐνεχυράζειν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 271:1)
Synonyms
-
to draw away from under
-
to withdraw secretly
Derived
- ἀνασπάω (to draw up, pull up, he drew his)
- ἀποσπάω (to tear or drag away from, to tear, from)
- διασπάω (to tear asunder, part forcibly, to tear down)
- ἐκσπάω (to draw out, having drawn, their)
- ἐξανασπάω (to tear away from, to tear up from)
- ἐπισπάω (to draw or drag after, by, having dragged)
- κατασπάω (to draw or pull down, to haul, down to the sea)
- μετασπάω (to draw over from one side to another)
- παρασπάω (to draw forcibly aside, wrest aside, to detach)
- περισπάω (I draw off from around, strip off, I strip myself of)
- σπάω (to draw, to be drawn, having their)
- συνανασπάω (to draw up together)
- συνεπισπάω (to draw on together, to draw on along with one)
- συσπάω (to draw together, draw up, contract)
