shoot
οὐδ' ἄμμε διακρινέει φιλότητος ἄλλο, πάρος θάνατόν γε μεμορμένον ἀμφικαλύψαι → nor will anything else divide us from our love before the fate of death enshrouds us (Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1129f.)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
discharge: P. and V. ἀφιέναι, μεθιέναι (rare P.), βάλλειν, ῥίπτειν, Ar. and V. ἱέναι, V. ἰάπτειν,
hit with a missile: P. and V. βάλλειν, ἀκοντίζειν.
hit with an arrow: P. and V. τοξεύειν.
shoot down (with a javelin): P. κατακοντίζειν; (with an arrow): Ar. and P. κατατοξεύειν.
Absol., shoot with the bow: P. and V. τοξεύειν; with the javelin: P. and V. ἀκοντίζειν, V. ἐξακοντίζειν (Euripides, Supplices 456, in Met. sense).
your wisdom has shot its mind's bolt: καί σου τὸ σῶφρον ἐξετόξευσεν φρενός (Euripides, Andromache 365).
shot by an arrow: V. τοξευτός.
shoot at, aim at: P. and V. στοχάζεσθαι (gen.).
with an arrow: P. and V. τοξεύειν (P. εἰς, acc., V. acc. alone or gen.).
shoot out: Ar. and V. προβάλλειν.
shoot up: P. and V. ἀνιέναι, ἀναδιδόναι (Euripides, Fragment); see emit; verb intransitive
dart: P. and V. ὁρμᾶν, ὁρμᾶσθαι, ἵεσθαι (rare P.), φέρεσθαι, Ar. and V. ᾄσσειν (rare P.), V. ἀΐσσειν; see rush.
of a star: V. ᾄσσειν (Plato, Republic 621B), Ar. θεῖν (Pax. 839); see shooting.
bud: P. and V. βλαστάνειν (rare P.), P. ἐκβλαστάνειν (Plato).
shoot ahead: P. προτρέχειν, P. and V. φθάνω, φθάνειν.
shoot down, swoop down, verb intransitive: P. and V. κατασκήπτειν (rare P.); see swoop.
shoot out, dart out: P. and V. ἐξορμᾶσθαι.
shoot through: Ar. and V. διᾴσσειν (gen.) (Sophocles, Trachiniae 1083, Ar. absol.).
shoot up, grow: P. and V. βλαστάνειν (rare P.), P. ἐκβλαστάνειν (Plato), ἀναφύεσθαι (Plato).
substantive
P. and V. πτόρθος, ὁ (Plato), βλάστη, ἡ (Plato), βλάστημα, τό (Isoc.), V. ἔρνος, τό (Euripides, Medea 1213), P. φυτευτήριον, τό.
