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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

  • καὶ τῶν μὲν αὐτίκα τὸ φάρμακον ἥπτετο, τοῦ δὲ Μιθριδάτου, καίτοι συντόνωσ ἐξεπίτηδεσ βαδίζοντοσ, οὐκ ἐφικνεῖτο δι’ ἔθοσ καὶ συντροφίαν ἑτέρων φαρμάκων, οἷσ ἐσ ἄμυναν δηλητηρίων ἐχρῆτο συνεχῶσ· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 6:9)
  • ὁμοῦ δὲ οἵ τε καταπέλται τὰσ λόγχασ ἀνερροίζουν καὶ ταλαντιαῖοι λίθοι μέγεθοσ ἐκ τῶν πετροβόλων ἐβάλλοντο πῦρ τε καὶ πλῆθοσ ἀθρόων οἰστῶν, ἅπερ οὐ μόνον τὸ τεῖχοσ ἀνεπίβατον τοῖσ Ιοὐδαίοισ ἐποίησεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἐντὸσ ὅσησ ἐφικνεῖτο χώρασ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 208:1)

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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