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ἐφικνέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφικνέομαι ἐφίξομαι ἐφικόμην

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

Sense

  1. to reach at, aim at
  2. to reach or extend
  3. to hit or touch the right points
  4. to reach, gain, attain to
  5. to come upon, to visit, with

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

  • πέμψασ γὰρ κωλῆν ἐρίφου σκέλοσ ἤραο πῖον ταύρου λαρινοῦ, τίμιον ἀνδρὶ λαχεῖν, τοῦ κλέοσ Ἑλλάδα πᾶσαν ἐφίξεται οὐδ’ ἀπολήξει ἔστ’ ἂν ἀοιδάων ᾖ γένοσ Ἑλλαδικόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 6 2:1)
  • ἢ μία σταγὼν αὐτόθεν εἰσ τὸ Αἰγαῖον ἐμπεσοῦσα πέλαγοσ ἢ τὸ Κρητικὸν ἐφίξεται τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ καὶ τῆσ Ἀτλαντικῆσ θαλάσσησ, οὐκ ἐπιπολῆσ ψαύουσα τῆσ ἐπιφανείασ ἀλλὰ πάντῃ διὰ βάθουσ εἰσ πλάτοσ ὁμοῦ καὶ μῆκοσ ἀναχεομένη. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 37 17:4)
  • τόξῳ γὰρ οὔτισ πημάτων ἐφίξεται. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests 2:1)
  • πέμψασ γὰρ κωλῆν ἐρίφου σκέλοσ ἤραο πῖον ταύρου λαρινοῦ, τίμιον ἀνδρὶ λαχεῖν, τοῦ κλέοσ Ἑλλάδα πᾶσαν ἐφίξεται οὐδ’ ἀπολήξει ἔστ’ ἄν ἀοιδάων ᾖ γένοσ Ἑλλαδικόν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 42)

Synonyms

  1. to reach at

  2. to reach or extend

  3. to reach

  4. to come upon

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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