Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χαλάω

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλάω

Structure: χαλά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to slacken, loosen, to unstring
  2. to let down, let sink, fall, droop, having unbent
  3. to let loose, loose, release, to let go, slacken one's hold
  4. to slack
  5. to loose, undo, open
  6. to loosen, undo things drawn tightly together
  7. to become slack, loose, stand open, to have a remission of
  8. to yield to, to be indulgent to
  9. to remit, to grow slack

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular χαλῶ χαλᾷς χαλᾷ
Dual χαλᾶτον χαλᾶτον
Plural χαλῶμεν χαλᾶτε χαλῶσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular χαλῶ χαλῇς χαλῇ
Dual χαλῆτον χαλῆτον
Plural χαλῶμεν χαλῆτε χαλῶσιν*
OptativeSingular χαλῷμι χαλῷς χαλῷ
Dual χαλῷτον χαλῴτην
Plural χαλῷμεν χαλῷτε χαλῷεν
ImperativeSingular χάλᾱ χαλᾱ́τω
Dual χαλᾶτον χαλᾱ́των
Plural χαλᾶτε χαλώντων, χαλᾱ́τωσαν
Infinitive χαλᾶν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
χαλων χαλωντος χαλωσα χαλωσης χαλων χαλωντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular χαλῶμαι χαλᾷ χαλᾶται
Dual χαλᾶσθον χαλᾶσθον
Plural χαλώμεθα χαλᾶσθε χαλῶνται
SubjunctiveSingular χαλῶμαι χαλῇ χαλῆται
Dual χαλῆσθον χαλῆσθον
Plural χαλώμεθα χαλῆσθε χαλῶνται
OptativeSingular χαλῴμην χαλῷο χαλῷτο
Dual χαλῷσθον χαλῴσθην
Plural χαλῴμεθα χαλῷσθε χαλῷντο
ImperativeSingular χαλῶ χαλᾱ́σθω
Dual χαλᾶσθον χαλᾱ́σθων
Plural χαλᾶσθε χαλᾱ́σθων, χαλᾱ́σθωσαν
Infinitive χαλᾶσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
χαλωμενος χαλωμενου χαλωμενη χαλωμενης χαλωμενον χαλωμενου

Imperfect tense

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.

Examples

  • ὠή, χαλᾶτε κλῇθρα, τοῖσ ἔνδον λέγω, καὶ δεσπότῃ σημήναθ’ οὕνεκ’ ἐν πύλαισ πάρειμι, καινῶν φόρτον ἀγγέλλων κακῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 1:1)
  • ὠή, χαλᾶτε κλῇθρα· (Euripides, Helen, episode12)
  • χαλᾶτε πᾶν κάλυμμ’ ἀπ’ ὀφθαλμῶν, ὅπωσ τὸ συγγενέσ τοι κἀπ’ ἐμοῦ θρήνων τύχῃ. (Sophocles, episode 1:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀνοίξατε ὅπωσ τάχιστα, καὶ γυναικείουσ πύλασ μοχλοῖσ χαλᾶτε· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. to slacken

  2. to let loose

  3. to slack

  4. to loose

  5. to yield to

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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