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ἐπικυίσκομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπικυίσκομαι

Structure: ἐπικυίσκ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to become doubly pregnant

Conjugation

Present 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

  • "τοῦτο μὲν ὅτι ὁ λαγὼσ ὑπὸ πάντων θηρεύεται, καὶ θηρίου καὶ ὄρνιθοσ καὶ ἀνθρώπου, οὕτω δή τι πολύγονόν ἐστιν, ἐπικυίσκει τε μόνον πάντων θηρίων, καὶ τὸ μὲν δασὺ τῶν τέκνων ἐν τῇ γαστρί, τὸ δὲ ψιλόν, τὸ δὲ ἄρτι ἐν τῇσ μήτρῃσι πλάσσεται, τὸ δ’ ἐπαναιρέεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 63 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. to become doubly pregnant

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

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