Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπικτάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικτάομαι ἐπικτήσομαι

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

Sense

  1. to gain or win besides

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 δὲ καὶ ἀνημέρων ἐτετυχήκειμεν ἐχθρῶν, κόροσ ἐστὶν ἀτυχημάτων ὅσα πεπόνθαμεν, οἳ τὴν ἡγεμονίαν τῆσ τε γῆσ καὶ θαλάσσησ ἀφῃρήμεθα, καὶ τὰσ ναῦσ ὑμῖν παρεδώκαμεν, καὶ ἄλλασ οὐκ ἐπικτώμεθα, καὶ θήρασ καὶ κτήσεωσ ἐλεφάντων ἀπέστημεν, καὶ ὅμηρα τὰ κράτιστα καὶ πάλαι καὶ νῦν παρεδώκαμεν, καὶ φόρουσ τελοῦμεν εὐτάκτωσ οἱ παρ’ ἑτέρων ἀεὶ λαμβάνοντεσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. to gain or win besides

Derived

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

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