Aorist stem?

Pacifica

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Don't Greek dictionaries give it in the same manner as Latin ones give all forms you should know amo, amavi...? Mine doesn't it seems like. Does someone know one that does somewhere on the net? I'm being stupidely stuck in my homework right now because I need an aorist I don't know.
 

LVXORD

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I have to admit that I've never actually seen a dictionary list the Greek principal parts in full... :(
 

Pacifica

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But why on earth?! How are you supposed to do in the beginning when you know next to nothing yet?

Well, for present needs, do you by any chance know the aorist of σῴζω? Lol. That's the one I presently need to finish my sentence.
 

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Greek dictionaries ought to give the principal parts, which are present, future, aorist, perfect active, perf middle, aorist passive.

Regarding the aorist, obviously there's the problem of 1st vs 2nd aorist and the occasional irregular verb or syncretised verb. For beginners I suggest the book "i tutti verbi Greci" by....Marione? It lists several verbs fully and is a good thing to have just to flick through a few verbs each day.
 

Aurifex

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Don't Greek dictionaries give it in the same manner as Latin ones give all forms you should know amo, amavi...? Mine doesn't it seems like. Does someone know one that does somewhere on the net? I'm being stupidely stuck in my homework right now because I need an aorist I don't know.
What is the dictionary you are using that doesn't have the forms you need?
 

Oups

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Little dictionaries don't indicate regular forms, as σῴζω aorist if you know that ζ + σ = σ
 

LVXORD

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Yes, indeed it is important to memorise the various rules of contractions.
 

Aurifex

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Thank you all.
Middle Liddell.
Does the page you're looking at look like this?
i.e:
σώζω σῶς
to save, keep:
1.of persons, to save from death, keep alive, preserve, Hom., attic
2.of things, to keep safe, preserve, Hom.:—Mid. to keep or preserve for oneself, Soph., etc.
3.to keep, observe, maintain laws, etc., Trag.:—Pass., Thuc.
4.to keep in mind, remember, Eur., Plat.:—so in Mid., Soph., Plat.
II.with a sense of motion to a place, to bring one safe to, τὸν δ᾽ ἐσάωσεν ἐς ποταμοῦ προχοάς Od.; σω. τινὰ πρὸς ἤπειρον Aesch.:—in Pass. to come safe, escape to a place, ἐς οἶκον Hdt.; ἐπὶ θάλατταν Xen.
2.to carry off safe, rescue from danger, ἐκ πολέμου Il.; ἐκ θανάτοιο Od.; ἀπὸ στρατείας Aesch.:—c. gen., ἐχθρῶν σῶσαι χθόνα to rescue the land from enemies, Soph.; Pass., σωθῆναι κακῶν Eur.
3.c. inf., αἵ σε σώζουσιν θανεῖν who save thee from dying, id=Eur.
4.absol., τὰ σώσοντα what is likely to save, Dem.


OR THIS?
 

Pacifica

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It looks like the first one. I assumed the perseus and paper version were the same... Thanks anyway.
 

Pacifica

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I am learning it. "Insufferable"??
 

Pacifica

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If I would be insufferable with Greek beside Latin because I would know too many things to your taste, what kind word would you find to describe people like IR or Aurifex and a few others here? It is beyond words I guess. Lol.
 

Arca Defectionis

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σῴζω only has iota subscript in the first part. The aorist is ἔσωσα. It appears to me that the root is really σω-, more or less, and then it takes the ending -ιζω (like βαπτίζω or νομίζω), it's just that the iota contracts with the omega. Perhaps because there's already a vowel there, though, it loses the iota in all the other parts, unlike other verbs using that ending.
 
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