Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • Ἢν ἐπὶ δυσεντερίῃσι καὶ ἕλκεσι πλατέσι καὶ κάρτα βαθέσι τῶν ἄνω ἐντέρων ὠτειλαὶ ἐγγίγνωνται πυκναὶ, παχεῖαι , στερέμνιοι , τὰ σιτία ἐκ τῶνδε ἐσ τὰ κάτω διεκθέει, ὑγρὰ, ἀδιάκρι τα τοῦ τροφίμου· τὸ γὰρ τῶν ἐντέρων ἀραιὸν δι’ οὗπερ ἐσ τὴν ἄνω φορὴν ἡ τροφὴ ἀναί̈σσει, ἀπέκλεισεν ἡ ὠτειλή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 247)
  • ἡδονὴ δὴ καὶ φιλία καὶ λύπη καὶ μῖσοσ ἂν ὀρθῶσ ἐν ψυχαῖσ ἐγγίγνωνται μήπω δυναμένων λόγῳ λαμβάνειν, λαβόντων δὲ τὸν λόγον, συμφωνήσωσι τῷ λόγῳ ὀρθῶσ εἰθίσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν προσηκόντων ἐθῶν, αὕτη ’σθ’ ἡ συμφωνία σύμπασα μὲν ἀρετή, τὸ δὲ περὶ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ καὶ λύπασ τεθραμμένον αὐτῆσ ὀρθῶσ ὥστε μισεῖν μὲν ἃ χρὴ μισεῖν εὐθὺσ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ μέχρι τέλουσ, στέργειν δὲ ἃ χρὴ στέργειν, τοῦτ’ αὐτὸ ἀποτεμὼν τῷ λόγῳ καὶ παιδείαν προσαγορεύων, κατά γε τὴν ἐμὴν ὀρθῶσ ἂν προσαγορεύοισ. (Plato, Laws, book 2 6:1)
  • μηδὲν γάρ τι οἰού με περὶ ἀνδρῶν εἰρηκέναι μᾶλλον ἃ εἴρηκα ἢ περὶ γυναικῶν, ὅσαι ἂν αὐτῶν ἱκαναὶ τὰσ φύσεισ ἐγγίγνωνται. (Plato, Republic, book 7 521:2)

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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