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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

  • ὑπὸ γὰρ ἀσθενείασ τε καὶ ἀτονίασ οὐδὲ ἐφικνεῖται τὰ βέλη αὐτοῖσ ἄχρι πρὸσ τὸν σκοπόν, ἀλλ’ ἐκλυθέντα καταπίπτει πολλάκισ ἐκ μέσησ τῆσ ὁδοῦ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 36:4)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ ψέγοντασ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῷ δι’ ἀπάτησ τὰ πλεῖστα πράττειν, ὡσ ἀνάξιον τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ, καὶ δόλῳ οὐκ ἄντικρυσ κατορθοῦντα, γελῶν ἔλεγεν ὅπου μὴ ἐφικνεῖται τῇ λεοντῆ, προσραπτέον εἶναι τὴν ἀλωπεκῆν. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 31)
  • ἀπάτησ τὰ πλεῖστα πράττειν ὡσ ἀνάξιον τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ καὶ δόλῳ, οὐκ ἄντικρυσ κατορθοῦντα, γελῶν ἔλεγεν ὅπου μὴ ἐφικνεῖται τῇ λεοντῆ, προσραπτέον εἶναι τὴν ἀλωπεκῆν. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 3 1:1)
  • "ὅπου γὰρ ἡ λεοντῆ μὴ ἐφικνεῖται, προσραπτέον ἐκεῖ τὴν ἀλωπεκῆν. (Plutarch, , chapter 7 4:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ ψέγοντασ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῷ δι’ ἀπάτησ τὰ πολλὰ πράσσειν ὡσ ἀνάξιον τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ, ἔλεγεν ὅπου μὴ ἐφικνεῖται ἡ λεοντῆ, προσραπτέον εἶναι τὴν ἀλωπεκῆν. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 21)

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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