The perfect form is often unpredictable, although usually you just drop the terminal "-i" to find the perfect stem. Deponent and semi-deponent verbs only have 3 principal parts: The perfect form doesn't end in "-i".Conor, -ari, -atussumis a deponent verb. The third principal part is...
Equally intriguing are the visual similarities between our word θεος, its feminine counterpart θεα (thea, meaning Goddess) and the verb θαομαι (theaomai), meaning to wonder, and its derived middle deponent verb θεαομαι (theaomai), meaning to behold or contemplate in...
The verbs featured in Table1were chosen to emphasize the fact that the forms of the stems are not reliably predictable from one another. Merely sharing one or two stem patterns, a present infinitive in-ereor Perfect in-uī,Footnote3for example, does not guarantee that the other stems will s...
More than half of this verb's occurrences in the New Testament are in the passive voice, which has traditionally been deemed deponent (meaning when the form is passive, translate as active anyway) but here at Abarim Publications we surmise that the passive form is indeed meant to be passive...