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.
- καὶ ἡμεῖσ ἄρα τοσοῦτον ἠπατήμεθα χρόνον οἰόμενοι τὸν Δία βροντᾶν τε καὶ ὑείν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα ἐπιτελεῖν, ὁ δὲ ἐλελήθει πάλαι τεθνεὼσ παρὰ Κρησὶ τεθαμμένοσ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 10:6)
- καίτοι χρῆν αἰθρίασ ὑείν αὐτόν, ταύτασ δ’ ἀποδημεῖν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests17)
- κάτειπέ νυν, πότερα νομίζεισ καινὸν ἀεὶ τὸν Δία ὑείν ὕδωρ ἑκάστοτ’, ἢ τὸν ἥλιον ἕλκειν κάτωθεν ταὐτὸ τοῦθ’ ὕδωρ πάλιν; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:21)
- διὸ καὶ λέλεκται μηκέτι νυκτὸσ ὑείν, ᾗ κεν τέκῃ ἀγροτέρη σῦσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 21 1:1)
- ὅμοιον γάρ, ὥσπερ εἴ τισ αὑτῷ μόνον λάμπειν ἠξίου τὸν ἥλιον ἢ τὸν Δία ὑείν ἢ τοὺσ ἀνέμουσ πνεῖν ἢ μηδένα ἄλλον ἀπὸ τῶν κρηνῶν δύνασθαι πιεῖν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 26:2)
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)