πλειστηρίζομαι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Stem πλειστηριδ-j-. From πλειστήρης (pleistḗrēs, “manifold, all the whole length”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pleːs.tɛː.ríz.do.mai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /plis.te̝ˈri.zo.mɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /plis.tiˈri.zo.mɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /plis.tiˈri.zo.me/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /plis.tiˈri.zo.me/
Verb
πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι • (pleistērízomai) (deponent)
- name, accuse as the cause
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 1029–1031:
- καὶ φίλτρα τόλμης τῆσδε πλειστηρίζομαι
τὸν πυθόμαντιν Λοξίαν, χρήσαντ’ ἐμοὶ
πράξαντι μὲν ταῦτ’ ἐκτὸς αἰτίας κακῆς
εἶναι- kaì phíltra tólmēs têsde pleistērízomai
tòn puthómantin Loxían, khrḗsant’ emoì
práxanti mèn taût’ ektòs aitías kakês
eînai - And for the spells that gave me the courage for this deed I count Loxias, the prophet of Pytho, my chief source. It was he who declared that, if I did this thing, I would be acquitted of wrongdoing.
- kaì phíltra tólmēs têsde pleistērízomai
- English translation (1926) by Herbert Weir Smyth @perseus
Scene: Orestes accuses Apollo (or Loxias) for the matricide he committed.
- English translation (1926) by Herbert Weir Smyth @perseus
- καὶ φίλτρα τόλμης τῆσδε πλειστηρίζομαι
Inflection
Found only in the present:
Present: πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle/ passive | indicative | πλειστηρῐ́ζομαι | πλειστηρῐ́ζῃ, πλειστηρῐ́ζει | πλειστηρῐ́ζεται | πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθον | πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθον | πλειστηρῐζόμεθᾰ | πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθε | πλειστηρῐ́ζονται | ||||
| subjunctive | πλειστηρῐ́ζωμαι | πλειστηρῐ́ζῃ | πλειστηρῐ́ζηται | πλειστηρῐ́ζησθον | πλειστηρῐ́ζησθον | πλειστηρῐζώμεθᾰ | πλειστηρῐ́ζησθε | πλειστηρῐ́ζωνται | |||||
| optative | πλειστηρῐζοίμην | πλειστηρῐ́ζοιο | πλειστηρῐ́ζοιτο | πλειστηρῐ́ζοισθον | πλειστηρῐζοίσθην | πλειστηρῐζοίμεθᾰ | πλειστηρῐ́ζοισθε | πλειστηρῐ́ζοιντο | |||||
| imperative | πλειστηρῐ́ζου | πλειστηρῐζέσθω | πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθον | πλειστηρῐζέσθων | πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθε | πλειστηρῐζέσθων | |||||||
| middle/passive | |||||||||||||
| infinitive | πλειστηρῐ́ζεσθαι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | πλειστηρῐζόμενος | |||||||||||
| f | πλειστηρῐζομένη | ||||||||||||
| n | πλειστηρῐζόμενον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Related terms
- πλειστηριᾰζω (pleistēriazō, “raise the price”) & compounds
- and see πλεῖστος (pleîstos, “most”)
Further reading
- “πλειστηρίζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πλειστηρίζομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers