πολεμέω
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”) + -έω (-éō, “verbal suffix”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /po.le.mé.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /po.leˈme.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /po.leˈme.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /po.leˈme.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /po.leˈme.o/
Verb
[edit]πολεμέω • (poleméō) (Attic, Ionic, Koine)
- to make war, be at war, fight, quarrel [with dative or πρός (prós, + accusative) ‘with, against someone’]
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.1:
- Θουκυδίδης Ἀθηναῖος ξυνέγραψε τὸν πόλεμον τῶν Πελοποννησίων καὶ Ἀθηναίων, ὡς ἐπολέμησαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους
- Thoukudídēs Athēnaîos xunégrapse tòn pólemon tôn Peloponnēsíōn kaì Athēnaíōn, hōs epolémēsan pròs allḗlous
- Thucydides the Athenian wrote down [the history of] the war of the Pelopponesians and Athenians, how they fought against each other
- Θουκυδίδης Ἀθηναῖος ξυνέγραψε τὸν πόλεμον τῶν Πελοποννησίων καὶ Ἀθηναίων, ὡς ἐπολέμησαν πρὸς ἀλλήλους
- (transitive, with a person as object) to make war on
- (passive voice, of a person) to have war made on one
- (with cognate accusative) to fight a fight
- (passive voice, of a fight) to take place
Conjugation
[edit] Present: πολεμέω (Uncontracted)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | πολεμέω | πολεμέεις | πολεμέει | πολεμέετον | πολεμέετον | πολεμέομεν | πολεμέετε | πολεμέουσῐ(ν) | ||||
subjunctive | πολεμέω | πολεμέῃς | πολεμέῃ | πολεμέητον | πολεμέητον | πολεμέωμεν | πολεμέητε | πολεμέωσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | πολεμέοιμῐ | πολεμέοις | πολεμέοι | πολεμέοιτον | πολεμεοίτην | πολεμέοιμεν | πολεμέοιτε | πολεμέοιεν | |||||
imperative | πολέμεε | πολεμεέτω | πολεμέετον | πολεμεέτων | πολεμέετε | πολεμεόντων | |||||||
active | |||||||||||||
infinitive | πολεμέειν | ||||||||||||
participle | m | πολεμέων | |||||||||||
f | πολεμέουσᾰ | ||||||||||||
n | πολεμέον | ||||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Present: πολεμῶ (Contracted)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | πολεμῶ | πολεμεῖς | πολεμεῖ | πολεμεῖτον | πολεμεῖτον | πολεμοῦμεν | πολεμεῖτε | πολεμοῦσῐ(ν) | ||||
subjunctive | πολεμῶ | πολεμῇς | πολεμῇ | πολεμῆτον | πολεμῆτον | πολεμῶμεν | πολεμῆτε | πολεμῶσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | πολεμοίην, πολεμοῖμῐ |
πολεμοίης, πολεμοῖς |
πολεμοίη, πολεμοῖ |
πολεμοῖτον, πολεμοίητον |
πολεμοίτην, πολεμοιήτην |
πολεμοῖμεν, πολεμοίημεν |
πολεμοῖτε, πολεμοίητε |
πολεμοῖεν, πολεμοίησᾰν | |||||
imperative | πολέμει | πολεμείτω | πολεμεῖτον | πολεμείτων | πολεμεῖτε | πολεμούντων | |||||||
active | |||||||||||||
infinitive | πολεμεῖν | ||||||||||||
participle | m | πολεμῶν | |||||||||||
f | πολεμοῦσᾰ | ||||||||||||
n | πολεμοῦν | ||||||||||||
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: ἐπολέμεον (Uncontracted)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἐπολέμεον | ἐπολέμεες | ἐπολέμεε(ν) | ἐπολεμέετον | ἐπολεμεέτην | ἐπολεμέομεν | ἐπολεμέετε | ἐπολέμεον | ||||
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: ἐπολέμουν (Contracted)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἐπολέμουν | ἐπολέμεις | ἐπολέμει | ἐπολεμεῖτον | ἐπολεμείτην | ἐπολεμοῦμεν | ἐπολεμεῖτε | ἐπολέμουν | ||||
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: πολεμέεσκον (Ionic iterative)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | πολεμέεσκον | πολεμέεσκες | πολεμέεσκε(ν) | πολεμεέσκετον | πολεμεεσκέτην | πολεμεέσκομεν | πολεμεέσκετε | πολεμέεσκον | ||||
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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Perfect: πεπολέμηκᾰ, πεπολέμημαι
Synonyms
[edit]- (fight): μάχομαι (mákhomai)
Derived terms
[edit]- ἀναπολεμέω (anapoleméō)
- ἀντιπολεμέω (antipoleméō)
- ἀποπολεμέω (apopoleméō)
- διαπολεμέω (diapoleméō)
- ἐκπολεμέω (ekpoleméō)
- ἐμπολεμέω (empoleméō)
- καταπολεμέω (katapoleméō)
- πολεμησείω (polemēseíō)
- προπολεμέω (propoleméō)
- προσδιαπολεμέω (prosdiapoleméō)
- προσπολεμέω (prospoleméō)
- συγκαταπολεμέω (sunkatapoleméō)
- συμπολεμέω (sumpoleméō)
- συνδιαπολεμέω (sundiapoleméō)
- συνεκπολεμέω (sunekpoleméō)
Further reading
[edit]- πολεμέω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πολεμέω in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “πολεμέω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G4170 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.