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χρηίσκομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρηίσκομαι

Structure: χρηίσκ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: ionic Frequent. of xrhi/zw

Sense

  1. to be much in want of

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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.

Examples

  • τὸν μὲν γὰρ χειμῶνα ὑεί σφι ὁ θεὸσ ὥσπερ καὶ τοῖσι ἄλλοισι ἀνθρώποισι, τοῦ δὲ θέρεοσ σπείροντεσ μελίνην καὶ σήσαμον χρηίσκονται τῷ ὕδατι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 117 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be much in want of

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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