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ἐκνήχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration: eknēchomai

Principal Part: ἐκνήχομαι ἐκνήξομαι

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

Etym.: = ἐκνέω

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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