τείρω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *téřřō, from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /těː.rɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈti.ro/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ro/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ro/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.ro/
Verb
τείρω • (teírō)
Conjugation
Present: τείρω, τείρομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | τείρω | τείρεις | τείρει | τείρετον | τείρετον | τείρομεν | τείρετε | τείρουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | τείρω | τείρῃς | τείρῃ | τείρητον | τείρητον | τείρωμεν | τείρητε | τείρωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | τείροιμῐ | τείροις | τείροι | τείροιτον | τειροίτην | τείροιμεν | τείροιτε | τείροιεν | |||||
| imperative | τεῖρε | τειρέτω | τείρετον | τειρέτων | τείρετε | τειρόντων | |||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | τείρομαι | τείρῃ / τείρει | τείρεται | τείρεσθον | τείρεσθον | τειρόμεθᾰ | τείρεσθε | τείρονται | ||||
| subjunctive | τείρωμαι | τείρῃ | τείρηται | τείρησθον | τείρησθον | τειρώμεθᾰ | τείρησθε | τείρωνται | |||||
| optative | τειροίμην | τείροιο | τείροιτο | τείροισθον | τειροίσθην | τειροίμεθᾰ | τείροισθε | τείροιντο | |||||
| imperative | τείρου | τειρέσθω | τείρεσθον | τειρέσθων | τείρεσθε | τειρέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | τείρειν | τείρεσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | τείρων | τειρόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | τείρουσᾰ | τειρομένη | |||||||||||
| n | τεῖρον | τειρόμενον | |||||||||||
| 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: ἔτειρον, ἐτειρόμην
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ἔτειρον | ἔτειρες | ἔτειρε(ν) | ἐτείρετον | ἐτειρέτην | ἐτείρομεν | ἐτείρετε | ἔτειρον | ||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐτειρόμην | ἐτείρου | ἐτείρετο | ἐτείρεσθον | ἐτειρέσθην | ἐτειρόμεθᾰ | ἐτείρεσθε | ἐτείροντο | ||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | τεῖρον | τεῖρες | τεῖρε(ν) | τείρετον | τειρέτην | τείρομεν | τείρετε | τεῖρον | ||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | τειρόμην | τείρου | τείρετο | τείρεσθον | τειρέσθην | τειρόμε(σ)θᾰ | τείρεσθε | τείροντο | ||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms
- ἀτειρής (ateirḗs)
- ἐντείρω (enteírō)
- κυκλοτερής (kukloterḗs)
- περιτείρω (periteírō)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τείρω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1458
Further reading
- “τείρω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τείρω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τείρω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τείρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τείρω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- τείρω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011