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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

  • ἢ Ῥωμύλοσ μὲν ὁρ́ουσ οὐκ ἔθηκε τῆσ χώρασ, ὅπωσ ἐξῇ προϊέναι καὶ ἀποτέμνεσθαι καὶ νομίζειν πᾶσαν ἰδίαν, ὥσπερ ὁ Λάκων εἶπεν, ἧσ ἂν τὸ δόρυ ἐφικνῆται, Νομᾶσ δὲ Πομπίλιοσ, ἀνὴρ δίκαιοσ καὶ πολιτικὸσ ὢν καὶ φιλόσοφοσ γενόμενοσ, τήν τε χώραν ὡρίσατο πρὸσ τοὺσ γειτνιῶντασ καὶ τοῖσ ὁρ́οισ ἐπιφημίσασ τὸν Τέρμινον ὡσ ἐπίσκοπον καὶ φύλακα φιλίασ καὶ εἰρήνησ ᾤετο δεῖν αἵματοσ καὶ φόνου καθαρὸν καὶ ἀμίαντον διαφυλάττειν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 152)
  • ἦ Ῥωμύλοσ μὲν ὁρ́ουσ οὐκ ἔθηκε τῆσ χώρασ, ὅπωσ ἐξῇ προϊέναι καὶ ἀποτέμνεσθαι καὶ νομίζειν πᾶσαν ἰδίαν, ὥσπερ ὁ Λάκων εἶπεν, ἧσ ἂν τὸ δόρυ ἐφικνῆται· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 15 1:1)

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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