Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἱκνέομαι

ε-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱκνέομαι

Structure: ἱκνέ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to come
  2. to come to, came
  3. to come upon
  4. to approach as suppliant, to supplicate, beseech
  5. it becomes, befits, that it befits, it, concerns, it belongs
  6. that which is fitting, proper, the fit, proper, the proportionate, fittingly, aright

Examples

  • τί φὴσ ἱκνεῖσθαι τῶνδ’ ἀγωνίων θεῶν, λευκοστεφεῖσ ἔχουσα νεοδρέπτουσ κλάδουσ; (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 8:9)

Synonyms

  1. to come

  2. to come to

  3. to come upon

  4. to approach as suppliant

  5. it becomes

Derived

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

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