σέβω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Late formation as the active equivalent of originally deponent σέβομαι (sébomai).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sé.bɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈse.bo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈse.βo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈse.vo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈse.vo/
Verb
σέβω • (sébō)
Conjugation
Present: σέβω
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | σέβω | σέβεις | σέβει | σέβετον | σέβετον | σέβομεν | σέβετε | σέβουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | σέβω | σέβῃς | σέβῃ | σέβητον | σέβητον | σέβωμεν | σέβητε | σέβωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | σέβοιμῐ | σέβοις | σέβοι | σέβοιτον | σεβοίτην | σέβοιμεν | σέβοιτε | σέβοιεν | |||||
| imperative | σέβε | σεβέτω | σέβετον | σεβέτων | σέβετε | σεβόντων | |||||||
| active | |||||||||||||
| infinitive | σέβειν | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | σέβων | |||||||||||
| f | σέβουσᾰ | ||||||||||||
| n | σέβον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Imperfect: ἔσεβον
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ἔσεβον | ἔσεβες | ἔσεβε(ν) | ἐσέβετον | ἐσεβέτην | ἐσέβομεν | ἐσέβετε | ἔσεβον | ||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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- See σέβομαι (sébomai) for other verb forms.
Descendants
- → Mariupol Greek: сае́ву (sajévu)
References
- “σέβω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σέβω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers