χράω
α-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
χράω
Structure:
χρά
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to furnish what is needful
- to furnish the needful answer, to declare, pronounce, proclaim, to warn or direct by oracle, that
- to consult a god or oracle, to inquire of, consult, using an oracle, to use, to consult the oracle, the consulters, one who has received an oracular response
- to furnish with, to furnish the use of, to lend, to have furnished one, borrow, lent, borrowed
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.
- Ποδαλείριοσ δὲ ἀφικόμενοσ εἰσ Δελφοὺσ ἐχρᾶτο ποῦ κατοικήσει· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 31:1)
- τῇσι δὲ πύλῃσι ταύτῃσι οὐδὲν ἐχρᾶτο τοῦδε εἵνεκα, ὅτι ὕπερ κεφαλῆσ οἱ ἐγίνετο ὁ νεκρὸσ διεξελαύνοντι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 187 5:1)
- καὶ ταύτῃσί τε ἐχρᾶτο ἐν τῷ δέοντι καὶ Σύροισι πεζῇ ὁ Νεκῶσ συμβαλὼν ἐν Μαγδώλῳ ἐνίκησε, μετὰ δὲ τὴν μάχην Κάδυτιν πόλιν τῆσ Συρίησ ἐοῦσαν μεγάλην εἷλε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 159 3:1)
- τοιούτῳ μὲν τρόπῳ προσηγάγετο τοὺσ Αἰγυπτίουσ ὥστε δικαιοῦν δουλεύειν, ἐχρᾶτο δὲ καταστάσι πρηγμάτων τοιῇδε· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 173 2:1)
- τῇ ἐπείτε συγκλίνοιτο ὁ Ἄμασισ, μίσγεσθαι οὐκ οἱο͂́σ τε ἐγίνετο, τῇσι δὲ ἄλλῃσι γυναιξὶ ἐχρᾶτο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 181 3:2)
Synonyms
-
to furnish what is needful
- σάττω (to furnish with all things needful, furnished)
-
to consult a god or oracle
- ἀναφαίνω (to proclaim, declare, to proclaim)
- ἐκχράω (to declare as an oracle, tell out)
- διακηρύσσω (to proclaim by herald, in declared war)
- θεσπίζω (to declare by oracle, prophesy, divine)
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to furnish with
- προσδανείζω (to lend besides, to have lent one, to borrow)
- δανείζω (to have lent to one, to borrow)
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- προσδανείζω (to lend besides, to have lent one, to borrow)
- δανείζω (to have lent to one, to borrow)
Derived
- ἀποχράω (to suffice, be sufficient, be enough)
- ἐγχράω (to dash against, there were, urged)
- ἐκχράω (to declare as an oracle, tell out, to suffice)
- ἐπιχράω (to attack, assault, beset)
- ἐπιχράω (to lend besides)
- καταχράομαι (to make full use of, apply, to use to the uttermost)
- χράω ( to fall upon, attack, assail)
