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.
- ἃ δὲ περὶ τῶν νέων γιγνώσκομεν καὶ ὅπωσ αὐτοῖσ χρώμεθα, ἐπειδὰν πρῶτον ἄρξωνται συνιέναι τε τοῦ βελτίονοσ καὶ τῷ σώματι ἀνδρίζεσθαι καὶ ὑφίστασθαι τοὺσ πόνουσ, ταῦτα ἤδη σοι διέξειμι, ὡσ μάθοισ οὗτινοσ χάριν τὰσ ἀσκήσεισ ταύτασ προτεθείκαμεν αὐτοῖσ καὶ διαπονεῖν τὸ σῶμα καταναγκάζομεν, οὐ μόνον ἕνεκα τῶν ἀγώνων, ὅπωσ τὰ ἆθλα δύναιντο ἀναιρεῖσθαι ‐ ἐπ’ ἐκεῖνα μὲν γὰρ ὀλίγοι πάνυ ἐξ ἁπάντων χωροῦσιν ‐ ἀλλὰ μεῖζόν τι ἁπάσῃ τῇ πόλει ἀγαθὸν ἐκ τούτου καὶ αὐτοῖσ ἐκείνοισ προσκτώμενοι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 15:2)
- ἐν εἰρήνῃ τε αὖ πολὺ ἀμείνοσιν αὐτοῖσ χρώμεθα περὶ μηδὲν τῶν αἰσχρῶν φιλοτιμουμένοισ μηδ’ ὑπ’ ἀργίασ εἰσ ὕβριν τρεπομένοισ, ἀλλὰ περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα διατρίβουσιν καὶ ἀσχόλοισ οὖσιν ἐν αὐτοῖσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 30:2)
- ἀλλὰ ἴδοισ ἄν, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, ἐπὶ πλέον ἡμῖν συνδιατρίψασ, καὶ ὅπλα ἑκάστῳ μάλα πολλά, οἷσ χρώμεθα ὁπόταν ἀναγκαῖον ᾖ, καὶ λόφουσ καὶ φάλαρα καὶ ἵππουσ, καὶ ἱππέασ σχεδὸν τὸ τέταρτον τῶν πολιτῶν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 34:5)
- προσποιούμενοι δὲ σωφρονέστατοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων εἶναι, τοιούτοισ χρώμεθα συμβούλοισ, ὧν οὐκ ἔστιν ὅστισ οὐκ ἂν καταφρονήσειε, καὶ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ τούτουσ κυρίουσ ἁπάντων τῶν κοινῶν καθίσταμεν, οἷσ οὐδεὶσ οὐδὲν ἂν τῶν ἰδίων ἐπιτρέψειε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 17 3:1)
- χρόνον μὲν ἤδη συμμάχοισι χρώμεθα ὅσονπερ ἐν γῇ τῇδ’ Ἀχαιικὸσ λεώσ, κοὐδὲν πρὸσ αὐτῶν οἶδα πλημμελὲσ κλύων· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:16)
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)
-
to furnish with
- προσδανείζω (to lend besides, to have lent one, to borrow)
- δανείζω (to have lent to one, to borrow)
-
- 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)
