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ἐκμιμέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκμιμέομαι ἐκμιμήσομαι

Structure: ἐκ (Prefix) + μιμέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to imitate faithfully, represent exactly

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

  • κεφάλαια δ’ αὐτῆσ ἐστιν ἃ πρόκειταί μοι δεῖξαι ταῦτα, τίσ τε ἐστὶν ἡ τῆσ συνθέσεωσ φύσισ καὶ τίνα ἰσχὺν ἔχει, καὶ τίνων στοχάζεται καὶ πῶσ αὐτῶν τυγχάνει, καὶ τίνεσ αἱ γενικώταται αὐτῆσ εἰσι διαφοραὶ καὶ τίσ ἑκάστησ χαρακτὴρ καὶ ποίαν κρατίστην αὐτῶν εἶναι πείθομαι, καὶ ἔτι πρὸσ τούτοισ, τί ποτ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ποιητικὸν ἐκεῖνο καὶ εὔγλωσσον καὶ μελιχρὸν ἐν ταῖσ ἀκοαῖσ, ὃ πέφυκε τῇ συνθέσει τῆσ πεζῆσ λέξεωσ παρακολουθεῖν, ποιητικῆσ τε κατασκευῆσ τὸν ἀποίητον ἐκμιμουμένησ λόγον καὶ σφόδρα ἐν τῇ μιμήσει κατορθούσησ εὖ τί τὸ κράτοσ καὶ διὰ ποίασ ἂν ἐπιτηδεύσεωσ ἐγγένοιτο ἑκάτερον αὐτῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 113)

Synonyms

  1. to imitate faithfully

Derived

Similar forms

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

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