Compound

§163 aACCENT: GENERAL PRINCIPLESThe antepenult, if accented, can have the acute only (ἄνθρωπος, βασίλεια queen, οἰκοφύλακος of a house-guard). If the ultima is long, either by nature or by position (144), the ant…

§§288–289ADJECTIVES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND DECLENSIONSAdjectives of Two Endings.—Adjectives using the masculine for the feminine are called adjectives of two endings. Most such adjectives are compounds.

§425 c N.ACCENTInfinitives, participles, and verbal adjectives are verbal nouns (358), and hence do not regularly show recessive accent. a. Infinitives.—The following infinitives accent the penul…

§898MEANING OF COMPOUNDSPossessive Compounds.—In possessive compounds the first part defines the second as in determinatives; but the whole compound is an adjective expressing a quality, with the idea of …

§1428GENITIVE WITH ADJECTIVESCompounds of alpha privative.—In addition to the adjectives with alpha privative which take the genitive by reason of the notion expressed in the verb, or by analogy, there are man…

§178CHANGE OF ACCENT IN DECLENSION, INFLECTION, AND COMPOSITIONIn composition the accent is usually recessive (159) in the case of substantives and adjectives, regularly in the case of verbs: βάσις ἀνάβασις, θεός ἄθεος, λῦε ἀπόλῡε. a. Proper n…

§§886–890LAST PART OF A COMPOUNDCompound Substantives and Adjectives.—The last part of a noun-compound consists of a noun-stem or of a verb-stem with a noun-suffix.

§§895–899MEANING OF COMPOUNDSCompound nouns (substantives and adjectives) are divided, according to their meaning, into three main classes: determinative, possessive, and prepositional-phrase, compounds. a. Th…

§896MEANING OF COMPOUNDSDeterminative Compounds.—In most determinative compounds the first part modifies or determines the second part: the modifier stands first, the principal word second. Thus by hand-w…

§897MEANING OF COMPOUNDSThere are two kinds of determinative compounds. (1) Descriptive determinative compounds.—The first part defines or explains the second part in the sense of an adjective or adverb. …

§897 (1)MEANING OF COMPOUNDSThere are two kinds of determinative compounds. (1) Descriptive determinative compounds.—The first part defines or explains the second part in the sense of an adjective or adverb. …

§897 aMEANING OF COMPOUNDSThere are two kinds of determinative compounds. (1) Descriptive determinative compounds.—The first part defines or explains the second part in the sense of an adjective or adverb. …

§897 bMEANING OF COMPOUNDSThere are two kinds of determinative compounds. (1) Descriptive determinative compounds.—The first part defines or explains the second part in the sense of an adjective or adverb. …

§897 (2)MEANING OF COMPOUNDSThere are two kinds of determinative compounds. (1) Descriptive determinative compounds.—The first part defines or explains the second part in the sense of an adjective or adverb. …

§899MEANING OF COMPOUNDSPrepositional-phrase Compounds.—Many phrases made of a preposition and its object unite to form a compound and take on adjectival inflection. Such compounds are equivalent to the p…

§1649PREPOSITIONSTwo or more prepositions may be used with one verb, either sepa rately, as adverbs, or in composition with the verb. Thus, στῆ δὲ παρέξ (or παρ᾽ ἐξ) he stood forth beside him Λ 486…

§903DEFINITIONSComplete sentences are simple, compound, or complex. In the simple sentence subject and predicate occur only once. A compound sentence (2162) consists of two or more simple sentenc…

§§2159–2161COMPOUND AND COMPLEX SENTENCES: COÖRDINATION AND SUBORDINATIONAll sentences other than simple sentences are formed by combining simple sentences either by coördination or subordination.

§§2162–2172SYNTAX OF THE COMPOUND SENTENCEA compound sentence consists of two or more simple sentences, grammatically independent of one another and generally united by a coördinating conjunction. Thus, τῇ δὲ ὑστεραίᾳ ἐπορ…

§§2597–2600GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INDIRECT DISCOURSESimple and compound sentences, and principal clauses of complex sentences, introduced by ὅτι or ὡς are treated as follows:

§236 cCONTRACTED SUBSTANTIVESAccent.—a. The nominative dual is irregularly oxytone: νώ, ὀστώ, not νῶ, ὀστῶ according to 171, N. 2. b. κανοῦν (κάνεον) basket receives its accent (not κάνουν) from that of the ge…

§261STEMS IN A LIQUID (λ, ρ) OR A NASAL (ν)—ConcludedVocative.—σωτήρ preserver, Ἀπόλλων, Ποσειδῶν (from Ποσειδέων, -ᾱ́ων, -ᾱϝων) have voc. σῶτερ, Ἄπολλον, Πόσειδον with recessive accent. Recessive accent also occurs in compound prope…

§282 a N.IRREGULAR DECLENSIONUsually the irregularity consists in a word having two different stems. a. Both stems have a common nominative singular: σκότος darkness, σκότου σκότῳ, etc. (like ἵππου ἵππῳ) or σκ…

§178CHANGE OF ACCENT IN DECLENSION, INFLECTION, AND COMPOSITIONIn composition the accent is usually recessive (159) in the case of substantives and adjectives, regularly in the case of verbs: βάσις ἀνάβασις, θεός ἄθεος, λῦε ἀπόλῡε. a. Proper n…

§423ACCENTSimple or compound verbs usually throw the accent as far back as the quantity of the last syllable permits (recessive accent, 159). λῡ́ω, λῡ́ομεν, ἐλῡόμην; παιδεύω, παιδεύουσι, ἐπα…

§424 bACCENTTo this general rule there are exceptions. a. Enclitics.—All the forms of φημί say, and εἰμί am, except φῄς and εἶ. b. Imperatives.—(1) The second person sing. of the second aorist…

§426ACCENTExceptions to the recessive accent of compound verbs.—a. The accent cannot precede the augment or reduplication: ἄπειμι am absent, ἀπῆν was absent, εἰσ-ῆλθον they entered, ἀπ-ῆσαν …

§§449–454POSITION OF AUGMENT AND REDUPLICATION IN COMPOUND VERBSIn verbs compounded with a preposition, augment and reduplication stand between the preposition and the verb. Thus, ὑπερβαίνω pass over, ὑπερέβαινον, ὑπερβέβηκα; εἰσβάλλω throw int…

§891LAST PART OF A COMPOUNDCompound Verbs.—Verbs can be compounded directly only by prefixing a preposition, as συμ-μάχομαι fight along with. a. A preposition (πρό-θεσις) derived its name from this use as a …

§892LAST PART OF A COMPOUNDAll compound verbs not compounded with prepositions are denominatives (ending in -εω) and formed from real or assumed compound nouns. From ναῦς ship and μάχη fight comes ναύμαχος f…

§§1382–1387GENITIVE WITH COMPOUND VERBSThe genitive depends on the meaning of a compound verb as a whole (1) if the simple verb takes the genitive without a preposition, as ὑπείκειν withdraw, παραλῡ́ειν release, παραχωρ…

§1403GENITIVE OF DISTINCTION AND OF COMPARISONMany verbs compounded with πρό, περί, ὑπέρ denoting superiority take the genitive, which may depend on the preposition (1384): τάχει περιεγένου αὐτοῦ you excelled him in speed X. C…

§1384GENITIVE WITH COMPOUND VERBSMany verbs compounded with ἀπό, πρό, ὑπέρ, ἐπί, and κατά take the genitive when the compound may be resolved into the simple verb and the preposition without change in the sense: τ…

§1403GENITIVE OF DISTINCTION AND OF COMPARISONMany verbs compounded with πρό, περί, ὑπέρ denoting superiority take the genitive, which may depend on the preposition (1384): τάχει περιεγένου αὐτοῦ you excelled him in speed X. C…

§§1544–1550DATIVE WITH COMPOUND VERBSMany compound verbs take the dative because of their meaning as a whole. So ἀντέχειν hold out against, ἀμφισβητεῖν dispute with (1523 b).