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.
- Ἡρακλείδησ γοῦν ὁ Λέμβοσ ἐν τῇ κα τῶν ἱστοριῶν ’ περὶ τὴν Παιονίαν καὶ Δαρδανίαν βατράχουσ φησίν, ’ ὗσεν ὁ θεὸσ καὶ τοσοῦτο αὐτῶν ἐγένετο τὸ πλῆθοσ ὡσ τὰσ οἰκίασ καὶ τὰσ ὁδοὺσ πλήρεισ εἶναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 6 2:3)
- ἀλλ’ ὗσεν, ἐπῆλθον· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:8)
- Ὀνίαν δέ τινα ὄνομα δίκαιον ὄντα καὶ θεοφιλῆ, ὃσ ἀνομβρίασ ποτὲ οὔσησ ηὔξατο τῷ θεῷ λῦσαι τὸν αὐχμὸν καὶ γενόμενοσ ἐπήκοοσ ὁ θεὸσ ὗσεν, κρύψαντα ἑαυτὸν διὰ τὸ τὴν στάσιν ὁρᾶν ἰσχυρὰν ἐπιμένουσαν, ἀναχθέντα εἰσ τὸ στρατόπεδον τῶν Ιοὐδαίων ἠξίουν, ὡσ ἔπαυσε τὴν ἀνομβρίαν εὐξάμενοσ, ἵν’ οὕτωσ ἀρὰσ θῇ κατὰ Ἀριστοβούλου καὶ τῶν συστασιαστῶν αὐτοῦ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 14 29:1)
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)