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ἐγγίγνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγγίγνομαι ἐγγενήσομαι

Structure: ἐγγίγν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be born or bred in
  2. to be inborn, innate
  3. to happen in or among
  4. to come in, intervene, pass
  5. it is allowed or possible

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

  • ἔτι τοίνυν ὥσπερ ἐγγίγνονται ταῖσ φύσεσι καὶ ταῖσ τύχαισ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἀνισότητεσ, οὕτωσ ἐν πᾶσι καὶ πάντωσ ὑπερέχειν τὸν ἕτερον ἀδύνατόν ἐστι. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 131)
  • ἀλλὰ ταύτασ μὲν οὕτω μάλιστα τὰσ ἀνωμαλίασ παρηγορητέον ἕτεραι δ’ εὐθὺσ ἐγγίγνονται διαφοραὶ περὶ τὰσ ἡλικίασ ἀπαιδεύτοισ ἀδελφοῖσ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 16 4:1)
  • ἐγγίγνονται δὲ τοῖσι νεφροῖσι μοῦνον, ἀλλὰ τοῖσι διαπύροισι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 80)
  • μετεξετέροισι γὰρ μεγάλησ ἐσχάρησ ἔκπτωσισ τῆσ φλεβὸσ τὸ στόμιον ἐσ μέζον εὐρύνει · εὖτε καὶ θρόμβοι ἔνδον ἐγγίγνονται καὶ μίμνουσι ἔσω, ἄφυκτοσ ἡ νοῦσοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 240)
  • ἔστι γὰρ ὥσπερ δῆμοσ ἤδη οἱ ὅμοιοι διὸ καὶ ἐν τούτοισ ἐγγίγνονται δημαγωγοὶ πολλάκισ, ὥσπερ εἴρηται πρότερον, ἔπειθ’ ἧττον εἰσ δυναστείασ ἐμπίπτουσιν αἱ ὀλιγαρχίαι καὶ ἀριστοκρατίαι οὐ γὰρ ὁμοίωσ ῥᾴδιον κακουργῆσαι ὀλίγον χρόνον ἄρχοντασ καὶ πολύν, ἐπεὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐν ταῖσ ὀλιγαρχίαισ καὶ δημοκρατίαισ γίγνονται τυραννίδεσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 156:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be born or bred in

  2. to be inborn

  3. to happen in or among

  4. to come in

  5. it is allowed or possible

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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