φέβομαι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pʰégʷomai, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʷeti, from *bʰegʷ-. Cognates include Sanskrit अभिभजते (abhibhajate), Lithuanian bė́gti, Proto-Slavic *běgati (“to flee, run”), Albanian boj, and perhaps Tocharian A pkänt.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰé.bo.mai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰe.bo.mɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸe.βo.mɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfe.vo.me/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfe.vo.me/
Inflection
This verb can function as the passive counterpart to φοβέω (phobéō).
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | φέβομαι | φέβῃ, φέβει |
φέβεται | φέβεσθον | φέβεσθον | φεβόμεθᾰ | φέβεσθε | φέβονται | ||||
subjunctive | φέβωμαι | φέβῃ | φέβηται | φέβησθον | φέβησθον | φεβώμεθᾰ | φέβησθε | φέβωνται | |||||
optative | φεβοίμην | φέβοιο | φέβοιτο | φέβοισθον | φεβοίσθην | φεβοίμεθᾰ | φέβοισθε | φέβοιντο | |||||
imperative | φέβου | φεβέσθω | φέβεσθον | φεβέσθων | φέβεσθε | φεβέσθων | |||||||
middle/passive | |||||||||||||
infinitive | φέβεσθαι | ||||||||||||
participle | m | φεβόμενος | |||||||||||
f | φεβομένη | ||||||||||||
n | φεβόμενον | ||||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. |
Imperfect: ἐφεβόμην
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐφεβόμην | ἐφέβου | ἐφέβετο | ἐφέβεσθον | ἐφεβέσθην | ἐφεβόμεθᾰ | ἐφέβεσθε | ἐφέβοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. |
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | φεβόμην | φέβου | φέβετο | φέβεσθον | φεβέσθην | φεβόμε(σ)θᾰ | φέβεσθε | φέβοντο | ||||
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. |
Synonyms
- φοβέομαι (phobéomai)
References
- “φέβομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φέβομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φέβομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φέβομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φέβομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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