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ἐπικοιμάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικοιμάομαι ἐπικοιμήσομαι

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + κοιμά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fall asleep over

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

  • λαμβάνων γὰρ τὰ βιβλία ἐπεκοιμᾶτο, ὡσ ἔφασκεν, αὐτοῖσ καὶ ὡσ ὄναρ παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ ἀκούων ἀπεκρίνετο, οὐ μέντοι σαφεῖσ τοὺσ πολλούσ, ἀλλ’ ἀμφιβόλουσ καὶ τεταραγμένουσ καὶ μάλιστα εἴ ποτε θεάσαιτο περιεργότερον τὸ βιβλίον κατεσφραγισμένον. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 49:2)
  • Ὁκόσα δὲ τῶν πομάτων ἀκρητέστερά ἐστιν ἢ αὐστηρότερα, παλμὸν ἐν τῷ σώματι καὶ σφυγμὸν ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ ἐμποιέει, τούτοισι καλῶσ ἔχει ἐπικοιμᾶσθαι, καὶ θερμόν τι ἐπιῤῬοφῇν, πρὸσ ὅπερ μάλιστα ἡδίστωσ ἔχουσιν‧ νηστείη δὲ πονηρὸν πρὸσ τὴν κεφαλαλγίην καὶ κραιπάλην. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.4)

Synonyms

  1. to fall asleep over

Derived

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

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