Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ πῦρ τισ φέρων ἅμα ἐμβάλοι εἰσ πυρὸν αὐτὸν καὶ εἰσ τὴν καλάμην αὐτοῦ καὶ εἰσ τὴν ἄχνην ‐ αὖθισ γὰρ ἐπὶ τὸν λικμῶντα ἐπάνειμι ‐ θᾶττον ἄν, οἶμαι, παρὰ πολὺ ἡ καλάμη ἀναφλεγείη, ὁ δὲ πυρὸσ κατ’ ὀλίγον οὔτε φλογὸσ μεγάλησ ἀνισταμένησ οὔτε ὑπὸ μιᾷ τῇ ὁρμῇ, ἀλλὰ κατὰ μικρὸν ὑποτυφόμενοσ χρόνῳ ὕστερον καὶ αὐτὸσ ἂν κατακαυθείη. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 26:3)

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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