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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

  • οὕτωσ ἁπάντων ἐρώτων ἰσχυρότατοσ ἅμα καὶ θειότατόσ ἐστιν ὁ πόλεσι καὶ δήμοισ πρὸσ ἕνα δι’ ἀρετὴν ἐγγιγνόμενοσ· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 291)
  • ψυχῇ μὲν πρὸσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ νοῦσ ἐγγιγνόμενοσ, κεφαλῇ δ’ αὖ πρὸσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὄψισ καὶ ἀκοή· (Plato, Laws, book 12 143:5)
  • φανήσεται γὰρ οὔθ’ ὅπου ῥητορικὴ σώζεται τύραννοσ ἐγγιγνόμενοσ, μέχρι ἂν σώζηται λόγῳ, οὔτ’ αὖ ῥητορικὴ περιοῦσα ἔνθα τυραννὶσ κρατεῖ, ἀλλ’ ὅ τε ῥήτωρ πάντα πράττων ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ τύραννοσ ἐγγένηται τό τε αὑτοῦ καὶ τὸ κοινὸν ὁμοῦ προορῶν, ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ αὐτὸν τὸ λόγῳ πείθειν παρελόμενοσ αὐτὸσ ἄγῃ κατ’ ἀρχὴν τὰ πράγματα, οἵ τε τύραννοι σκοποῦντεσ καὶ φοβούμενοι τῶν πάντων οὐδὲν μᾶλλον ἢ μή τισ ἐγγένηται λέγειν καὶ πείθειν δυνατὸσ, ὅστισ συναγαγὼν τὰ πλήθη καὶ σύμβουλοσ καὶ μηνυτὴσ τοῦ προσήκοντοσ γενόμενοσ ὁμοῦ τῆσ τε ἀρχῆσ καὶ τῆσ ἐξουσίασ ἀκύρουσ καταστήσει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 75:5)

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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