Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐκνήχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκνήχομαι ἐκνήξομαι

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

Etym.: = e)kne/w

Sense

  1. to swim out or away

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

  • εἰ δέ τισ καὶ τάδε διαφυγὼν ἐκνήχοιτο ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, συνηράσσοντο καὶ οἵδε ἐπὶ τὰσ πέτρασ ὑπὸ τοῦ κύματοσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 10 2:9)
  • τοῦ δὲ στρατοῦ δύο μὲν τέλη διώλετο ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ, καί, εἴ τινεσ αὐτῶν ἐξενήχοντο, καὶ τούσδε Τισιηνὸσ ὁ τοῦ Πομπηίου στρατηγὸσ ἐκνέοντασ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν διέφθειρεν· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 11 8:5)
  • ἡ δὲ τούσ τε ἐν τοῖσ πύργοισ ἀπεσείσατο καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν ἀθρόωσ ἐδέχετο, καὶ τῶν ἐρετῶν οἱ μὲν θαλαμίαι πάντεσ ἀπελήφθησαν, οἱ δ’ ἕτεροι τὸ κατάστρωμα ἀναρρήξαντεσ ἐξενήχοντο. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 11 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. to swim out or away

Derived

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

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