γαμίσκω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From γάμος (gámos, “marriage, matrimony”) + -σκω (-skō).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡa.mís.kɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɡaˈmis.ko/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɣaˈmis.ko/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ɣaˈmis.ko/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ɣaˈmis.ko/
Verb
γᾰμίσκω • (gămískō)
- alternative form of γαμίζω (gamízō)
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 7.1335a.20:
- πολλῶν διαφθειρομένων διὰ τὸ γαμίσκεσθαι τὰς νεωτέρας
- pollôn diaphtheiroménōn dià tò gamískesthai tàs neōtéras
- many were dying owing to it being their custom for the women to marry young
- πολλῶν διαφθειρομένων διὰ τὸ γαμίσκεσθαι τὰς νεωτέρας
Declension
Present: γᾰμῐ́σκω, γᾰμῐ́σκομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | γᾰμῐ́σκω | γᾰμῐ́σκεις | γᾰμῐ́σκει | γᾰμῐ́σκετον | γᾰμῐ́σκετον | γᾰμῐ́σκομεν | γᾰμῐ́σκετε | γᾰμῐ́σκουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | γᾰμῐ́σκω | γᾰμῐ́σκῃς | γᾰμῐ́σκῃ | γᾰμῐ́σκητον | γᾰμῐ́σκητον | γᾰμῐ́σκωμεν | γᾰμῐ́σκητε | γᾰμῐ́σκωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | γᾰμῐ́σκοιμῐ | γᾰμῐ́σκοις | γᾰμῐ́σκοι | γᾰμῐ́σκοιτον | γᾰμῐσκοίτην | γᾰμῐ́σκοιμεν | γᾰμῐ́σκοιτε | γᾰμῐ́σκοιεν | |||||
| imperative | γᾰ́μῐσκε | γᾰμῐσκέτω | γᾰμῐ́σκετον | γᾰμῐσκέτων | γᾰμῐ́σκετε | γᾰμῐσκόντων | |||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | γᾰμῐ́σκομαι | γᾰμῐ́σκῃ / γᾰμῐ́σκει | γᾰμῐ́σκεται | γᾰμῐ́σκεσθον | γᾰμῐ́σκεσθον | γᾰμῐσκόμεθᾰ | γᾰμῐ́σκεσθε | γᾰμῐ́σκονται | ||||
| subjunctive | γᾰμῐ́σκωμαι | γᾰμῐ́σκῃ | γᾰμῐ́σκηται | γᾰμῐ́σκησθον | γᾰμῐ́σκησθον | γᾰμῐσκώμεθᾰ | γᾰμῐ́σκησθε | γᾰμῐ́σκωνται | |||||
| optative | γᾰμῐσκοίμην | γᾰμῐ́σκοιο | γᾰμῐ́σκοιτο | γᾰμῐ́σκοισθον | γᾰμῐσκοίσθην | γᾰμῐσκοίμεθᾰ | γᾰμῐ́σκοισθε | γᾰμῐ́σκοιντο | |||||
| imperative | γᾰμῐ́σκου | γᾰμῐσκέσθω | γᾰμῐ́σκεσθον | γᾰμῐσκέσθων | γᾰμῐ́σκεσθε | γᾰμῐσκέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | γᾰμῐ́σκειν | γᾰμῐ́σκεσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | γᾰμῐ́σκων | γᾰμῐσκόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | γᾰμῐ́σκουσᾰ | γᾰμῐσκομένη | |||||||||||
| n | γᾰμῐ́σκον | γᾰμῐσκόμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Further reading
- “γαμίσκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γαμίσκω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γαμίσκω in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G1061 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- γαμίσκω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011