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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

  • διάφορα δὴ ^ καὶ μεγέθει καὶ εἴδει ἀνάγκη καὶ τὰ νοσήματα ἐγγίγνεσθαι αὐτοῖσ, καὶ τὰ μὲν εὐίατα εἶναι καὶ πρὸσ τὴν θεραπείαν ἀναπεπταμένα, τὰ δὲ τέλεον ἀπεγνωσμένα καὶ ῥᾳδίωσ ἁλισκόμενα καὶ κατὰ κράτοσ ὑπὸ τῶν νοσημάτων λαμβανόμενα. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 27:3)
  • οὐδεμίαν αἰδῶ τοῖσ νέοισ οὐδ’ εὐλάβειαν ἐγγίγνεσθαι. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 47 1:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν, τῶν σκαληνῶν καὶ τριγωνοειδῶν σχηματισμῶν ἐν τοῖσ σώμασι κειμένων, τὸ ῥιγοῦν καὶ τρέμειν καὶ φρίττειν καὶ ὅσα συγγενῆ τοῖσ πάθεσι τούτοισ ὑπὸ τραχύτητοσ ἐγγίγνεσθαι λέγοντεσ, εἰ καὶ τοῖσ κατὰ μέροσ διαμαρτάνουσι, τὴν γοῦν ἀρχὴν ὅθεν δεῖ λαμβάνουσι δεῖ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἀφ’ ἑστίασ τῆσ τῶν ὅλων οὐσίασ ἄρχεσθαι τὴν ζήτησιν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 8 1:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ οὐ μόνον ἐν χρημάτων κτήσει καὶ μειώσει τῷ πλείονι πολέμιον καθίσταται τοὔλασσον ἀλλ’ ἁπλῶσ, φησιν ὁ Πλάτων ἐν μὲν ἀνωμαλίᾳ κίνησιν ἐν δ’ ὁμαλότητι στάσιν ἐγγίγνεσθαι καὶ μονήν, οὕτω πᾶσα μὲν ἀνισότησ ἐπισφαλήσ ἐστι πρὸσ διαφορὰν ἀδελφῶν, ἐν πᾶσι δ’ ἴσουσ γενέσθαι καὶ ὁμαλοὺσ ἀδύνατον· (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 12 4:1)
  • "ἐκεῖ μὲν γάρ, ὡσ ἐοίκε, ταὐτὸ δεῖ πάθοσ ἐγγίγνεσθαι καὶ τὴν αὐτὴν μεταβολὴν ἐνταῦθα δ’ ἡ ψυχὴ ταῖσ φαντασίαισ ἀγομένη κατὰ τὸ θαρρεῖν καὶ δεδιέναι χεῖρον ἢ βέλτιον διαγίγνεσθαι πέφυκεν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 1611)

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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