ὕω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ὕω
ὕσω
ὗσα
ὗσμαι
ὕσθην
Structure:
ύ̔
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- I rain
- (with accusative of place) I rain on
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.
- ὕδατοσ ἐσ τὰ πεδία, ὥστε ἀπὸ τῶνδε ἔξεστι τεκμηριοῦσθαι καὶ τοῦ Νείλου τὸ πάθημα, ὅτι οἰκὸσ ὑέσθαι τὰ Αἰθιόπων οὔρεα τοῦ θέρεοσ, καὶ ἀπ̓ ἐκείνων ἐμπιμπλάμενον τὸν Νεῖλον ὑπερβάλλειν ὑπὲρ τὰρ ὄχθασ ἐσ τὴν γῆν τὴν Αἰγυπτίην. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 6 6:1)
- ὑέσθαι δὲ κατάπερ τὰ Ἰνδῶν οὐκ ἔξω ἐστὶ τοῦ οἰκότοσ, ἐπεὶ καὶ τἄλλα ἡ Ἰνδῶν γῆ οὐκ ἀπέοικε τῆσ Αἰθιοπίησ, καὶ οἱ ποταμοὶ οἱ Ἰνδικοὶ ὁμοίωσ τῷ Νείλῳ τῷ Αἰθιοπηίῳ τε καὶ Αἰγυπτίῳ κροκοδείλουσ τε φέρουσιν, ἔστιν δὲ οἳ αὐτῶν καὶ ἰχθύασ καὶ ἄλλα κήτεα ὅσα ὁ Νεῖλοσ, πλὴν ἵππου τοῦ ποταμίου· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 6 8:1)
- εἶναι γὰρ τὴν χώραν ἀραιὰν καὶ τὸν ἀέρα κοῦφον, ὡσ μήτε ὑέσθαι πολλάκισ μήτε ὑπομένειν τὸ γιγνόμενον ὕδωρ, περιέχεσθαί τε ὀλίγου πᾶσαν αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τῆσ θαλάττησ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:3)
- καὶ ὁ μὲν τῷ Πανελληνίῳ Διὶ θύσασ καὶ εὐξάμενοσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα γῆν ἐποίησεν ὑέσθαι, τῶν δὲ ἐλθόντων ὡσ αὐτὸν εἰκόνασ ταύτασ ἐποιήσαντο οἱ Αἰγινῆται. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 12:2)
- τὰσ δὲ νησῖδασ αἳ πρόκεινται τῆσ χώρασ ἀριθμὸν ἐννέα οὔσασ Πέλοποσ μὲν καλοῦσι, τοῦ θεοῦ δὲ ὑόντοσ μίαν ἐξ αὐτῶν οὔ φασιν ὑέσθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 3:2)
Synonyms
-
I rain
-
I rain on
Derived
- ἀνύω (to effect, achieve, accomplish)
- ἐφύω (to rain upon, rained upon, exposed to the rain)
- μεθύω (to be drunken with wine, soaked, to be drunken or intoxicated)
