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.
- συντάσσων χιόνι. γίνου ἐπὶ γῆσ, καὶ χειμὼν ὑετόσ, καὶ χειμὼν ὑετῶν δυναστείασ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 37:6)
- "εἰ δ’ ὥσ φασιν οὐδὲ τὰσ δρόσουσ ἀνέχεται, καθάπερ τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν Ἀραβικῶν, ἀλλ’ ἐξαμαυροῦται διαινόμενα καὶ φθείρεται, τί δὴ θαυμαστόν ἐστιν εἰ γίγνονται περὶ τὴν σελήνην ῥίζαι καὶ σπέρματα καὶ ὗλαι μηδὲν ὑετῶν δεόμεναι μηδὲ χιόνων ἀλλὰ πρὸσ θερινὸν ἀέρα καὶ λεπτὸν εὐφυῶσ ἔχουσαι; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 2527)
- Οὐιεντανοὺσ πολιορκούντων Ῥωμαίων περὶ τὴν ἐπιτολὴν τοῦ κυνόσ, ὅτε μάλιστα λίμναι τε ἐπιλείπουσι καὶ ποταμοὶ πάντεσ, ὅ τι μὴ μόνοσ ὁ Αἰγύπτιοσ Νεῖλοσ, λίμνη τισ ἀπέχουσα τῆσ Ῥώμησ οὐ μεῖον ρκ’ σταδίων ἐν τοῖσ Ἀλβανοῖσ καλουμένοισ ὄρεσι, παρ’ ᾗ τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἡ τῶν Ῥωμαίων μητρόπολισ ᾠκεῖτο, οὔτε ὑετῶν γενομένων οὔτε νιφετῶν οὔτ’ ἄλλησ τινὸσ αἰτίασ ἀνθρώποισ φανερᾶσ, τοσαύτην ἔλαβεν ἐκ τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ ναμάτων ἐπίδοσιν, ὥστε πολλὴν μὲν ἐπικλύσαι τῆσ παρορείου, πολλὰσ δὲ οἰκήσεισ γεωργικὰσ καταβαλεῖν, τελευτῶσαν δὲ καὶ τὸν μεταξὺ τῶν ὀρῶν αὐλῶνα διασπάσαι καὶ ποταμὸν ἐκχέαι κατὰ τῶν ὑποκειμένων πεδίων ἐξαίσιον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 10 2:1)
- διὰ δὲ ταῦθ’ ἡμῖν καρποί τε καὶ ἐγκύμων ἡ γῆ γέγονεν, ὥστ’ εἶναι τροφὴν πᾶσι τοῖσ ζῴοισ, ἀνέμων τε καὶ ὑετῶν γιγνομένων οὐκ ἐξαισίων οὐδὲ ἀμέτρων· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 45:2)
- ὣσ καὶ Λαέρταο τόδ’ ἠρίον, ὃ σχεδὸν ἀκτῆσ βαιὸν ἄπο, ψυχρῶν λείβεται ἐξ ὑετῶν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2252)
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)