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.
- θεωρήσουσιν ὑμᾶσ τοὺσ κρίνοντασ, ὅπωσ χρῆσθε τῷ τὰ τοιαῦτα διαπεπραγμένῳ. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 27:4)
- ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν ὦνόητοι μεταβαλόντεσ τοὺσ τρόπουσ χρῆσθε τοῖσ χρηστοῖσιν αὖθισ· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parabasis, antepirrheme4)
- ἀλλ’ ὄψοισ χρῆσθε τούτοισ ἐφηδύνοντεσ τὴν τροφήν· (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 92)
- "διὰ τί ἐγχειριδίοισ βραχέσι χρῆσθε; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 51)
- "διὰ τί ἐγχειριδίοισ βραχέσι χρῆσθε; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 51)
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)
