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λανθάνω

λανθάνω

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • λήθω (lḗthō) especially in compounds

Verb

λᾰνθᾰ́νω (lanthánō)

  1. (active) to escape notice
    1. (transitive) escape a person's notice
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 219.a
        ἀλλ᾽, ὦ μακάριε, ἄμεινον σκόπει, μή σε λανθάνω οὐδὲν ὤν.
        But look again, sweet friend, and see whether you are not deceived in me.
    2. (transitive) to do [+participle or rarely infinitive = something] without being noticed [+accusative = by someone]
    3. (intransitive) to do [+participle = something] without knowing it
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.44
        ὁ Κροῖσος ... ἐκάλεε ... Δία ... ἐπίστιον, διότι οἰκίοισι ὑποδεξάμενος τὸν ξεῖνον φονέα τοῦ παιδὸς ἐλάνθανε βόσκων
        Croesus called on Zeus of the Hearth, because he received the guest into his house and, without knowing it, had been feeding the murderer of his son
  2. (active) to cause to forget [+genitive = something, someone]
    1. (in compounds, ἐκληθάνω (eklēthánō), ἐπιλήθω (epilḗthō))
    2. (Epic reduplicated aorist, λέλᾰθον)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.59–61
        ὅφρα ... Ἕκτορα ... ὀτρύνῃσι μάχην ἐς Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων
        αὖτις δ᾽ ἐμπνεύσῃσι μένος, λελάθῃ δ' ὀδυνάων
        αἳ νῦν μιν τείρουσι κατὰ φρένας
        so that Phoebus Apollo can urge Hector to battle,
        breathe strength back into him, and make him forget the aches
        that now distress him in his mind
  3. (middle) to forget [+genitive = something, someone]
    • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1–2
      Ὦ ἄνα, Λητοῦς υἱέ, Διὸς τέκος, οὔποτε σεῖο
      λήσομαι ἀρχόμενος οὐδ' ἀποπαυόμενος...
      O lord, Leto's son, Zeus's child [Apollo], I will never forget you in starting or ending [my song] ...

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λανθάνω (lanthánō)

Verb

λανθάνω (lantháno) (simple past , found only in the present tense)

  1. be latent, be dormant, be underlying

Conjugation

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