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.
- Κρατῖνοσ δ’ ἐπὶ ἐρετῶν χρᾶται τῇ λέξει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 422)
- περὶ τῶν νομίμων οἷσ χρᾶται τὰ ἔθνη τῶν Ἀράβων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter pr95)
- εἰπεῖν γὰρ πρὸσ αὐτὴν ὅτι καθῆκον ἦν τὸν Δία μετὰ τῆσ αὐτῆσ ἐπιφανείασ τε καὶ τιμῆσ ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ὁμιλίαν ᾗπερ χρᾶται κατὰ τὴν πρὸσ τὴν Ἥραν συμπεριφοράν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 64 4:1)
- ἐπισχὼν δὲ ὀλίγον χρόνον ἀποφέρεται ὁ θύσασ τὰ κρέα καὶ χρᾶται ὅ τι μιν λόγοσ αἱρέει. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 132 4:3)
- ἀλλὰ λογισάμενοσ ἢν εὑρίσκῃ πλέω τε καὶ μέζω τὰ ἀδικήματα ἐόντα τῶν ὑπουργημάτων, οὕτω τῷ θυμῷ χρᾶται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 137 2:2)
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)
