Formatting of Principal Parts
Now that we’ve looked at how the various lemmas interelate, let’s turn our attention to the individual part formatting. Here I just describe the various idiosyncracies. In subsequent posts, I’ll discuss how to bring together (the relevant parts of) this information in single, machine-actionable format.
Pratt
- unattested form cells have emdash
—
- forms only found with a prefix but listed under the base verb are prefixed
-
(often still with breathing but sometimes inconsistently not) - alternative forms separated by
/
- active vs middle (this will be an important distinction in later posts)
- different augment handling
- stem alternatives
- other spelling differences
- some single-letter spelling differences are just indicated with parenthetical letter (could be expanded to just use
/
as above) - aorists sometimes indicate the root in parentheses where it might not be predictable from the part (particularly useful later for inferring unaugmented stems, etc)
- (rarely) section number with paradigm is referenced
- (rarely) part-specific gloss is included
- forms taken from another synonymous verb indicated by
*
(although not all suppletion indicated this way)
Morwood
- includes seventh part for future passive
- vowel lengths indicated
- pre-contracted forms (especially in future) are shown in parentheses
- rare forms are in italics
- forms only found with a prefix but listed under the base verb are prefixed
-
(not normally with breathing but one or two inconsistencies) - alternative forms separated by
,
(or on new line, see below) - imperfect form sometimes listed under aorist column (marked
impf.
) - specifically transitive or intransitive forms sometimes marked
(tr.)
or(intr.)
- because alternative lemmas get their own line, corresponding forms can be lined up
- (rarely) page number references
- (rarely) part-specific glosses
- poetic spelling variants sometimes indicated
DCC Greek Core List
- unlike Pratt and Morwood, the parts are just a comma-separated list
- missing forms are not indicated as such so sometimes fewer than six forms are listed; if there are gaps, the next form is sometimes annotated with which part it is (and sometimes it’s annotated even when it doesn’t need to be)
- second aorists are annotated with
2 aor.
- where there is a first and second aorist, they can both be given as separate, comma-separated parts (with first annotated as
1 aor.
) - non-standard parts are sometimes given (e.g.
impf.
,infin.
,ptc.
) - forms only found with a prefix but listed under the base verb are prefixed
-
(not normally with breathing) - occasionally further annotated in parentheses, e.g.:
πειράω (usually mid. πειράομαι)
προστέθειμαι (but commonly προσκεῖμαι instead)
τέθειμαι (but usu. κεῖμαι instead)
- in a couple of cases forms are glossed (although inconsistently presented):
pf. ἀπολώλεκα (“I have utterly destroyed”) or ἀπόλωλα (“I am undone”)
ἵστημι στήσω will set, ἔστησα set, caused to stand, 2 aor. ἔστην stood, ἕστηκα stand, plup. εἱστήκη stood, ἐστάθην stood
(note missing comma between first two parts)
- alternative forms just listed separated by
or