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ἐξικνέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξικνέομαι ἐξικνίξομαι ἐξικόμην

Structure: ἐξ (Prefix) + ἱκνέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to reach, arrive at
  2. to come to
  3. to arrive at or reach, to complete, accomplish
  4. to reach, I can get by inquiry
  5. to be sufficient

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • παρὰ δὲ δὴ Πρωταγόραν νῦν ἀφικόμενοι ἐγώ τε καὶ σὺ ἀργύριον ἐκείνῳ μισθὸν ἕτοιμοι ἐσόμεθα τελεῖν ὑπὲρ σοῦ, ἂν μὲν ἐξικνῆται τὰ ἡμέτερα χρήματα καὶ τούτοισ πείθωμεν αὐτόν, εἰ δὲ μή, καὶ τὰ τῶν φίλων προσαναλίσκοντεσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 18:1)
  • τοῖσ δὲ παρ’ ἑαυτῷ παρήγγειλεν, ἐπειδὰν σφενδόνη ἐξικνῆται καὶ ἀσπὶσ ψοφῇ, παιανίσαντασ θεῖν εἰσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, ἐπειδὰν δ’ ἀναστρέψωσιν οἱ πολέμιοι καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ποταμοῦ ὁ σαλπικτὴσ σημήνῃ τὸ πολεμικόν, ἀναστρέψαντασ ἐπὶ δόρυ ἡγεῖσθαι μὲν τοὺσ οὐραγούσ, θεῖν δὲ πάντασ καὶ διαβαίνειν ὅτι τάχιστα ᾗ ἕκαστοσ τὴν τάξιν εἶχεν, ὡσ μὴ ἐμποδίζειν ἀλλήλουσ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 31:1)
  • ἢν οὖν μὴ ἐξικνῆται ταῦτ’ εἰσ τὸν μισθόν, τίνοσ τάλαντον φήσω ἔχειν; (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 59:2)
  • τὸ δ’ ὅμοιον ἑξῆσ ποιοῦσι πάντεσ, ἑώσ ἂν ἐπὶ τὰσ πρώτασ καὶ σύνεγγυσ τοῖσ χιλιάρχοισ στρατοπεδευούσασ σημαίασ ἐξικνῆται. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 34 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. to reach

  2. to come to

  3. to arrive at or reach

  4. to reach

  5. to be sufficient

Derived

Similar forms

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

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