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χερνίπτομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration: cherniptomai

Principal Part: χερνίπτομαι

Structure: χερνίπτ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to wash one's hands
  2. to sprinkle with holy water, purify or dedicate thereby

Conjugation

Present tense

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

  • σὺ δὲ πρότεινε τῶν ὀλῶν, καὐτός γε χερνίπτου παραδοὺς ταύτην ἐμοί, καὶ τοῖς θεαταῖς ῥῖπτε τῶν κριθῶν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. to wash one's hands

Similar forms

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

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