Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπιτεχνάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιτεχνάομαι ἐπιτεχνήσομαι

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

Etym.: from e)pitexna/omai

Sense

  1. to contrive for, to meet, to invent
  2. to contrive against

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

  • ἐῶ γὰρ λέγειν ὁπόσα ἐπὶ πείρᾳ τῆσ μαντικῆσ ἐπιτεχνῶνται αὐτῷ ἄρνεια κρέα καὶ χελώνασ εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ ἕψοντεσ, ὥστε εἰ μὴ τὴν ῥῖνα ὀξὺσ ἦν, κἂν ἀπῆλθεν αὐτοῦ ὁ Λυδὸσ καταγελῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 1:10)
  • Σπόριοσ δὲ Κάσσιοσ ἀνελεῖν τὰσ πόλεισ αὐτῶν συνεβούλευε θαυμάζειν λέγων ἐπὶ ταῖσ εὐηθείαισ τῶν παραινούντων ἀφεῖναι τὰσ ἁμαρτίασ αὐτοῖσ ἀζημίουσ, εἰ μηδὲ δύνανται καταμαθεῖν, ὅτι διὰ τὸν φθόνον τὸν ἔμφυτόν τε καὶ ἀναφαίρετον, ὃν ἔχουσι πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν αὐτῶν αὐξομένην, ἄλλουσ ἐπ’ ἄλλοισ ἐπιτεχνῶνται πολέμουσ καὶ οὐδέποτε παύσονται τῆσ ἐπιβούλου προαιρέσεωσ ἑκόντεσ, ἑώσ αὐτῶν τοῦτ’ ἐν ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ τὸ δύστηνον ἐνοικεῖ πάθοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 20 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. to contrive for

  2. to contrive against

Derived

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

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