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

  • μέθεσ, ἱκνοῦμαί σ’ Ἔρωσ, καὶ ποίησον τόνδ’ ἐσ εὐνὴν τὴν ἐμὴν ἱκέσθαι. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 14)
  • μέθεσ, ἱκνοῦμαί σ’ Ἔρωσ, καὶ ποίησον τήνδ’ ἐσ εὐνὴν τὴν ἐμὴν ἱκέσθαι. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 15)
  • ἀλλὰ πρόσ σε δεξιᾶσ σὲ καὶ σὲ ἱκνοῦμαι, σὲ δὲ φίλησ παρηίδοσ, γονάτων τε καὶ τῶν ἐν δόμοισι φιλτάτων μητρὸσ πατρόσ τε καὶ τέκνων ὅτῳ κυρεῖ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 6:8)
  • κἀγώ σ’ ἱκνοῦμαι χάριτι προσθεῖναι χάριν, <ἡμῖν> ἵν’ ἀμφοῖν εἷσ ὑπουργήσῃσ διπλᾶ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode 5:8)
  • ταύτησ ἱκνοῦμαί σ’ ‐ ὦ μέλεοσ ἐμῶν κακῶν, ἐσ οἱο͂ν ἥκω. (Euripides, episode, iambic 19:9)

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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