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.
- "ου’ γὰρ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶνον ἐπέχεον, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τὸ ὕδωρ τὸν οἶνον, ὅπωσ ἐν τῷ πίνειν ὑδαρεστέρῳ χρῷντο τῷ ποτῷ καὶ τούτου ποιησάμενοι τὴν ἀπόλαυσιν ἧττον ὀρέγοιντο τοῦ λοιποῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 188)
- οἱ δημιουργοὶ πάντεσ, εἰ αὐτοῖσ εἰή πάντα τὰ ἐπιτήδεια παρεσκευασμένα ἑκάστῳ εἰσ τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ἔργον, χρῷντο δὲ αὐτοῖσ μή, ἆρ’ ἂν οὗτοι εὖ πράττοιεν διὰ τὴν κτῆσιν, ὅτι κεκτημένοι εἰε͂ν πάντα ἃ δεῖ κεκτῆσθαι τὸν δημιουργόν; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 89:4)
- ὥσπερ γε καὶ περὶ ἀφροδισίων οὐ διελεγόμεθα πρὸσ τοὺσ ἄγαν νέουσ, ἵνα μὴ πρὸσ τὴν ἰσχυρὰν ἐπιθυμίαν αὐτοῖσ ῥᾳδιουργίασ προσγενομένησ ἀμέτρωσ αὐτῇ χρῷντο οἱ νέοι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 40:3)
- καὶ μὴν πρόσθεν μὲν ἦν αὐτοῖσ μονοσιτεῖν νόμιμον, ὅπωσ ὅλῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ χρῷντο εἰσ τὰσ πράξεισ καὶ εἰσ τὸ διαπονεῖσθαι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 12:1)
- ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν φυομένων ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ τὰσ δυνάμεισ οἱ παῖδεσ πρόσθεν μὲν ἐμάνθανον, ὅπωσ τοῖσ μὲν ὠφελίμοισ χρῷντο, τῶν δὲ βλαβερῶν ἀπέχοιντο· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 8 21:1)
Synonyms
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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)
