πείρω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
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From Proto-Indo-European *per-. Cognates include Old Armenian հերիւն (heriwn), Old Church Slavonic на-перѫ (na-perǫ, “pierce”), Sanskrit पिपर्ति (piparti, “to bring over to, deliver”), Old English faru (English fare), and Albanian shpie.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pěː.rɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ro/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ro/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ro/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ro/
Verb
πείρω • (peírō)
- I pierce, run through
- (figuratively) I cleave through
Inflection
Present: πείρω, πείρομαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἔπειρον | ἔπειρες | ἔπειρε(ν) | ἐπείρετον | ἐπειρέτην | ἐπείρομεν | ἐπείρετε | ἔπειρον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐπειρόμην | ἐπείρου | ἐπείρετο | ἐπείρεσθον | ἐπειρέσθην | ἐπειρόμεθᾰ | ἐπείρεσθε | ἐπείροντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Perfect: πέπᾰρμαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | πέπᾰρμαι | πέπᾰρσαι | πέπᾰρται | πέπᾰρθον | πέπᾰρθον | πεπᾰ́ρμεθᾰ | πέπᾰρθε | πεπᾰ́ρᾰται | ||||
subjunctive | πεπᾰρμένος ὦ | πεπᾰρμένος ᾖς | πεπᾰρμένος ᾖ | πεπᾰρμένω ἦτον | πεπᾰρμένω ἦτον | πεπᾰρμένοι ὦμεν | πεπᾰρμένοι ἦτε | πεπᾰρμένοι ὦσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | πεπᾰρμένος εἴην | πεπᾰρμένος εἴης | πεπᾰρμένος εἴη | πεπᾰρμένω εἴητον/εἶτον | πεπᾰρμένω εἰήτην/εἴτην | πεπᾰρμένοι εἴημεν/εἶμεν | πεπᾰρμένοι εἴητε/εἶτε | πεπᾰρμένοι εἴησᾰν/εἶεν | |||||
imperative | πέπᾰρσο | πεπᾰ́ρθω | πέπᾰρθον | πεπᾰ́ρθων | πέπᾰρθε | πεπᾰ́ρθων | |||||||
middle/passive | |||||||||||||
infinitive | πεπᾰ́ρθαι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | πεπᾰρμένος | |||||||||||
f | πεπᾰρμένη | ||||||||||||
n | πεπᾰρμένον | ||||||||||||
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
Related terms
References
- “πείρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πείρω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πείρω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πείρω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πείρω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963