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ὑποτύφομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποτύφομαι

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

Sense

  1. to burn with a smouldering fire, burn secretly

Conjugation

Present 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

  • παρελθόντεσ δὲ ὅμωσ τοῦ Ναυπλίου καθηγουμένου ἑωρῶμεν κολαζομένουσ πολλοὺσ μὲν βασιλέασ, πολλοὺσ δὲ καὶ ἰδιώτασ, ὧν ἐνίουσ καὶ ἐγνωρίζομεν εἴδομεν δὲ καὶ τὸν Κινύραν καπνῷ ὑποτυφόμενον ἐκ τῶν αἰδοίων ἀπηρτημένον. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 31:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ διὰ Φειδίου προσέπταισε τῷ δήμῳ, φοβηθεὶσ τὸ δικαστήριον μέλλοντα τὸν πόλεμον καὶ ὑποτυφόμενον ἐξέκαυσεν, ἐλπίζων διασκεδάσειν τὰ ἐγκλήματα καὶ ταπεινώσειν τὸν φθόνον ἐν πράγμασι μεγάλοισ καὶ κινδύνοισ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐκείνῳ μόνῳ διὰ τὸ ἀξίωμα καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ἀναθείσησ ἑαυτήν. (Plutarch, , chapter 32 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. to burn with a smouldering fire

Derived

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

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