τέρσομαι
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”). Cognates include Latin terra, Sanskrit तृष्यति (tṛṣyati), Old Armenian թառամիմ (tʻaṙamim, “I wither”) and Old English þurst (English thirst).
Verb
[edit]τέρσομαι • (térsomai) (deponent)
- to be or become dry, dry up
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.151-153:
- τὸν δʼ ἄρʼ ἐπʼ ἀκτῆς εὗρε καθήμενον· οὐδέ ποτʼ ὄσσε δακρυόφιν τέρσοντο, κατείβετο δὲ γλυκὺς αἰὼν νόστον ὀδυρομένῳ, ἐπεὶ οὐκέτι ἥνδανε νύμφη.
- tòn d ár ep aktês heûre kathḗmenon; oudé pot ósse dakruóphin térsonto, kateíbeto dè glukùs aiṑn nóston oduroménōi, epeì oukéti hḗndane númphē.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- τὸν δʼ ἄρʼ ἐπʼ ἀκτῆς εὗρε καθήμενον· οὐδέ ποτʼ ὄσσε δακρυόφιν τέρσοντο, κατείβετο δὲ γλυκὺς αἰὼν νόστον ὀδυρομένῳ, ἐπεὶ οὐκέτι ἥνδανε νύμφη.
Usage notes
[edit]Only the Epic Aorist infinitives τερσῆναι (tersênai) and τερσήμεναι (tersḗmenai) are attested for the Epic aorist, from which the remaining forms can be reconstructed.
Conjugation
[edit] Present: τέρσομαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | τέρσομαι | τέρσῃ, τέρσει |
τέρσεται | τέρσεσθον | τέρσεσθον | τερσόμεθᾰ | τέρσεσθε | τέρσονται | ||||
subjunctive | τέρσωμαι | τέρσῃ | τέρσηται | τέρσησθον | τέρσησθον | τερσώμεθᾰ | τέρσησθε | τέρσωνται | |||||
optative | τερσοίμην | τέρσοιο | τέρσοιτο | τέρσοισθον | τερσοίσθην | τερσοίμεθᾰ | τέρσοισθε | τέρσοιντο | |||||
imperative | τέρσου | τερσέσθω | τέρσεσθον | τερσέσθων | τέρσεσθε | τερσέσθων | |||||||
middle/passive | |||||||||||||
infinitive | τέρσεσθαι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | τερσόμενος | |||||||||||
f | τερσομένη | ||||||||||||
n | τερσόμενον | ||||||||||||
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: ἑτερσόμην
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἑτερσόμην | ἑτέρσου | ἑτέρσετο | ἑτέρσεσθον | ἑτερσέσθην | ἑτερσόμεθᾰ | ἑτέρσεσθε | ἑτέρσοντο | ||||
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 | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | τερσόμην | τέρσου | τέρσετο | τέρσεσθον | τερσέσθην | τερσόμεθᾰ | τέρσεσθε | τέρσοντο | ||||
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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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
passive | indicative | ἐτέρσην | ἐτέρσης | ἐτέρση | ἐτέρσητον | ἐτερσήτην | ἐτέρσημεν | ἐτέρσητε | ἐτέρσησᾰν | ||||
subjunctive | τερσῶ | τερσῇς | τερσῇ | τερσῆτον | τερσῆτον | τερσῶμεν | τερσῆτε | τερσῶσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | τερσείην | τερσείης | τερσείη | τερσεῖτον, τερσείητον |
τερσείτην, τερσειήτην |
τερσεῖμεν, τερσείημεν |
τερσεῖτε, τερσείητε |
τερσεῖεν, τερσείησᾰν | |||||
imperative | τέρσηθῐ | τερσήτω | τέρσητον | τερσήτων | τέρσητε | τερσέντων | |||||||
passive | |||||||||||||
infinitive | τερσῆναι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | τερσείς | |||||||||||
f | τερσεῖσᾰ | ||||||||||||
n | τερσέν | ||||||||||||
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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References
[edit]- “τέρσομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέρσομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέρσομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέρσομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τέρσομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- τέρσομαι, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011