χαίρω
Non-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
χαίρω
Structure:
χαίρ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: Root XAR
Sense
- to be full of cheer, i.e. calmly happy or well off
- (on meeting or parting, as an imperative) be well; farewell, be glad, God speed, greetings, hail, joy(‐fully), rejoice (as a salutation)
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 τί θαυμαστὸν εἰ τοῦτο ἔπαθεσ, ἀνόητοσ καὶ ἀπαίδευτοσ ἄνθρωποσ, καὶ προῄεισ ἐξυπτιάζων καὶ μιμούμενοσ βάδισμα καὶ σχῆμα καὶ βλέμμα ἐκείνου ᾧ σεαυτὸν εἰκάζων ἔχαιρεσ, ὅπου καὶ Πύρρον φασὶ τὸν Ἠπειρώτην, τὰ ἄλλα θαυμαστὸν ἄνδρα, οὕτωσ ὑπὸ κολάκων ἐπὶ τῷ ὁμοίῳ ποτὲ διαφθαρῆναι ὡσ πιστεύειν ὅτι ὅμοιοσ ἦν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἐκείνῳ; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 21:1)
- ὅτι πρῶτα μὲν ἦσθ’ ἄνθρωποσ ὥσπερ νὼ ποτέ, κἀργύριον ὠφείλησασ ὥσπερ νὼ ποτέ, κοὐκ ἀποδιδοὺσ ἔχαιρεσ ὥσπερ νὼ ποτέ· (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 3:37)
- "χρόνον εὔφραινεσ ᾄδων, τοσοῦτον ἔχαιρεσ ἐλπίζων" τοῦτον δὲ τὸν ἔρανον αἱ τοιαῦται πληροῦσιν ἀκροάσεισ τοῖσ λέγουσι· (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 7 13:1)
- Τόλμα, Κύρνε, κακοῖσιν, ἐπεὶ κἀσθλοῖσιν ἔχαιρεσ, εὖτέ σε καὶ τούτων μοῖρ’ ἐπέβαλλεν ἔχειν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389191)
- καὶ μὴν ὡσαύτωσ μνήμην μὴ κεκτημένον ἀνάγκη δήπου μηδ’ ὅτι ποτὲ ἔχαιρεσ μεμνῆσθαι, τῆσ τ’ ἐν τῷ παραχρῆμα ἡδονῆσ προσπιπτούσησ μηδ’ ἡντινοῦν μνήμην ὑπομένειν· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 64:1)
