Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀποκαίνυμαι

-νυμι athematic Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποκαίνυμαι

Structure: ἀπο (Prefix) + καίνυ (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to surpass or vanquish

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἔνθα δ’ ἐπὶ Πριόλαο κασιγνήτοιο θανόντοσ ἡμετέρου Μυσοῖσιν ὑπ’ ἀνδράσιν, ὅντινα λαὸσ οἰκτίστοισ ἐλέγοισιν ὀδύρεται ἐξέτι κείνου, ἀθλεύων Τιτίην ἀπεκαίνυτο πυγμαχέοντα καρτερόν, ὃσ πάντεσσι μετέπρεπεν ἠιθέοισιν εἶδόσ τ’ ἠδὲ βίην· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 13:4)
  • τῇ δ’ αὖτ’ Εὐρύαλοσ ἀπεκαίνυτο πάντασ ἀρίστουσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 12:6)
  • οἰο͂σ δή με Φιλοκτήτησ ἀπεκαίνυτο τόξῳ δήμῳ ἔνι Τρώων, ὅτε τοξαζοίμεθ’ Ἀχαιοί. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 24:12)

Synonyms

  1. to surpass or vanquish

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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