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ἐξικνέομαι?

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: exikneomai

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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν τούς τε καταπέλτας καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν ἀφετηρίων, ὡς ἐξικνοῖτο τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους κωλύειν πειρωμένων, ἔγγιον προσαγαγόντες ἔβαλλον: (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 270:1)
  • καὶ δὴ συμβῆναι Κροτωνιάτας μὲν οὕτως ὑγιεινὴν οἰκῆσαι πόλιν ὥσπερ εἰρήκαμεν, Συρακούσσας δὲ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἐκπεσεῖν πλοῦτον ὥστε καὶ αὐτοὺς ἐν παροιμίᾳ διαδοθῆναι, λεγόντων πρὸς τοὺς ἄγαν πολυτελεῖς ὡς οὐκ ἂν ἑξικνοῖτο αὐτοῖς ἡ Συρακουσσίων δεκάτη. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 8:6)

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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