φθάνω?
Non-contract Verb;
자동번역
Transliteration: phthanō
Principal Part:
φθάνω
Structure:
φθάν
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Etym.: φθανω always in attic; φθα_νω twice in Il.
Sense
- to come or do first or before
- to be beforehand with, overtake, outstrip, anticipate, to be overtaken
- to come first, the first comer, to come or arrive first
- in which one outstrips, is beforehand, was beforehand with, in, quicker, sooner, first, before, beforehand, first, first, am the first, before
- before, before
- escapes, first, is first
- no sooner, no sooner, when
- not be too quick, make haste and, quickly
- be too quick
Conjugation
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.
- ἢν δέ ποτε καὶ ἀρύσωμαι καὶ προσενέγκω τῷ στόματι, οὐ φθάνω βρέξας ἄκρον τὸ χεῖλος, καὶ διὰ τῶν δακτύλων διαρρυὲν οὐκ οἶδ᾿ ὅπως αὖθις ἀπολείπει ξηρὰν τὴν χεῖρά μοι. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 1:6)
- " οἶδα δὲ καὶ ἄλλους ἀσώτους πολλούς, περὶ ὧν ὑμῖν καταλείπω ζητεῖν, πλὴν Καλλίου τοῦ Ἱππονίκου, ὃν καὶ οἱ τῶν παίδων οἴδασι παιδαγωγοί, περὶ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ὧν φθάνω προβεβληκὼς εἴ τι λέγειν ἔχετε, ἀναπεπταμένας ἔχω τῶν ὤτων τὰς πύλας ὥστε λέγετε ἐπιζητῶ γὰρ καὶ ὅπερ ὁ Μάγνος εἴρηκε τὸ ἐπεσθίειν καὶ τὸ ἐπιφαγεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 676)
Synonyms
-
to come or do first or before
-
to be beforehand with
-
to come first
-
before
-
escapes
-
not be too quick
- ἀνύω (to do quickly, make haste, make haste)
Derived
- ἐπιφθάνω (to reach first)
- παραφθάνω (to overtake, outstrip)
- προφθάνω (to outrun, anticipate, to be beforehand)
- ὑποφθάνω (to haste before, be or get beforehand, to be beforehand with)
