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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

  • τοῦτο δ’ ἦν ἐφ’ ἑνὶ συλλήβδην γενέσθαι τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἡγεμονίαν ὧν γὰρ ἐδόκει μόνων ἐπαρχιῶν μὴ ἐφικνεῖσθαι τῷ προτέρῳ νόμῳ, Φρυγίασ, Λυκαονίασ, Γαλατίασ, Καππαδοκίασ, Κιλικίασ, τῆσ ἄνω Κολχίδοσ, Ἀρμενίασ, αὗται προσετίθεντο μετὰ στρατοπέδων καὶ δυνάμεων αἷσ Λεύκολλοσ κατεπολέμησε Μιθριδάτην καὶ Τιγράνην. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 30 2:1)
  • καθ’ ὅσον δ’ ἐκ τῶν προειρημένων δυνατὸν ἐφικνεῖσθαι τῆσ φύσεωσ αὐτοῦ, τῇδ’ ἄν τισ ὀρθότατα λέγοι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 214:1)
  • ταῦτα δὲ λέγει διδάσκων καὶ παραινῶν , ἐπεὶ τροφῆσ γε παντοίασ καὶ πολυτελείασοὐκ ἐτύγχανεν ἄπειροσ ὤν, ὥστε τοὺσ περὶ ταῦτα νῦν ἐπτοημένουσ Πέρσασ καὶ Σύρουσ καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων Ἰταλιώτασ καὶ Ιὤνασ μηδὲ ἐγγὺσ ἐφικνεῖσθαι τῆσ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ χορηγίασ καὶ ἁβρότητοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 59:3)
  • διὰ δὲ τῶν φίλων δύναται καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ διαλέγεσθαι καὶ πάντων ἔργων ἐφικνεῖσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 123:2)
  • συμβαίνει δ’ ἐμοὶ τῇ μὲν μνήμῃ πάντων ἐφικνεῖσθαι τῶν ἐκείνου καλῶν, τῷ λόγῳ δὲ ἀπόρωσ ἔχειν ἐπεξελθεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:5)

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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