ἐλασσόω
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom ἐλάσσων (elássōn, “smaller, less”) + -όω (-óō).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.las.só.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /e.lasˈso.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /e.lasˈso.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /e.lasˈso.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /e.laˈso.o/
Verb
editἐλᾰσσόω • (elassóō)
- to make less or smaller, to diminish, reduce in amount
- (in early writers) to lower, degrade
- to cut down, shorten
- (passive voice) to be lessened, depreciated, to suffer loss
- (passive voice) to have the worst of it, to be inferior
- (passive voice) to be at disadvantage with a person
Conjugation
edit Perfect: ἠλᾰ́σσωμαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἠλᾰ́σσωμαι | ἠλᾰ́σσωσαι | ἠλᾰ́σσωται | ἠλᾰ́σσωσθον | ἠλᾰ́σσωσθον | ἠλᾰσσώμεθᾰ | ἠλᾰ́σσωσθε | ἠλᾰ́σσωνται | ||||
subjunctive | ἠλᾰσσωμένος ὦ | ἠλᾰσσωμένος ᾖς | ἠλᾰσσωμένος ᾖ | ἠλᾰσσωμένω ἦτον | ἠλᾰσσωμένω ἦτον | ἠλᾰσσωμένοι ὦμεν | ἠλᾰσσωμένοι ἦτε | ἠλᾰσσωμένοι ὦσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | ἠλᾰσσωμένος εἴην | ἠλᾰσσωμένος εἴης | ἠλᾰσσωμένος εἴη | ἠλᾰσσωμένω εἴητον/εἶτον | ἠλᾰσσωμένω εἰήτην/εἴτην | ἠλᾰσσωμένοι εἴημεν/εἶμεν | ἠλᾰσσωμένοι εἴητε/εἶτε | ἠλᾰσσωμένοι εἴησᾰν/εἶεν | |||||
imperative | ἠλᾰ́σσωσο | ἠλᾰσσώσθω | ἠλᾰ́σσωσθον | ἠλᾰσσώσθων | ἠλᾰ́σσωσθε | ἠλᾰσσώσθων | |||||||
middle/passive | |||||||||||||
infinitive | ἠλᾰσσῶσθαι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | ἠλᾰσσωμένος | |||||||||||
f | ἠλᾰσσωμένη | ||||||||||||
n | ἠλᾰσσωμένον | ||||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms
edit- ἐλᾰ́σσωμᾰ (elássōma)
Further reading
edit- “ἐλασσόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἐλασσόω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐλασσόω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐλασσόω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)