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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

  • καὶ ἁρμονίᾳ διακεκόσμηκε τὴν οὐσίαν αὐτῆσ ὑποκειμένην καὶ δεχομένην τὸ κάλλιστον εἶδοσ ὑπὸ τούτων ἐγγιγνόμενον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 3 8:1)
  • δόξασ δὲ καὶ πίστεισ καὶ τὸ φανταστικὸν καὶ τὸ παθητικὸν ὑπὸ τῶν περὶ τὸ σῶμα ποιοτήτων, ὃ οὐκ ἄν τισ ἐκ μονάδων οὐδὲ γραμμῶν οὐδ’ ἐπιφανειῶν ἁπλῶσ νοήσειεν ἐγγιγνόμενον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 23 1:3)
  • εἰ ἔν τῴ τι γίγνεται, οὐκ ἀνάγκη μήτε πω ἐν ἐκείνῳ εἶναι ἔτι ἐγγιγνόμενον, μήτ’ ἔτι ἔξω ἐκείνου παντάπασιν, εἴπερ ἤδη ἐγγίγνεται; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 221:8)
  • οὗ δὲ μήτε μέρη εἰσὶ μήτε ὅλον τυγχάνει ὄν, οὐ πολὺ ἔτι ἀδυνατώτερον ἐγγίγνεσθαί που, μήτε κατὰ μέρη μήτε κατὰ ὅλον ἐγγιγνόμενον; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 222:4)
  • ὅτι, ὦ Τεισία, πάλαι ἡμεῖσ, πρὶν καὶ σὲ παρελθεῖν, τυγχάνομεν λέγοντεσ ὡσ ἄρα τοῦτο τὸ εἰκὸσ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ δι’ ὁμοιότητα τοῦ ἀληθοῦσ τυγχάνει ἐγγιγνόμενον· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 305:1)

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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