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

  • δ’ οὐκ ἐᾷ τῆσ ἱκνουμένησ συμμετρίασ τὸν λόγον ἐκπίπτειν. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 9 7:1)
  • ἐν ἁπάσαισ ταῖσ τέχναισ καὶ ταῖσ ἐπιστήμαισ ταῖσ μὴ κατὰ μόριον γινομέναισ, ἀλλὰ περὶ γένοσ ἕν τι τελείαισ οὔσαισ, μιᾶσ ἐστι θεωρῆσαι τὸ περὶ ἕκαστον γένοσ ἁρμόττον, οἱο͂ν ἄσκησισ σώματι ποία τε ποίῳ συμφέρει, καὶ τίσ ἀρίστη τῷ γὰρ κάλλιστα πεφυκότι καὶ κεχορηγημένῳ τὴν ἀρίστην ἀναγκαῖον ἁρμόττειν, καὶ τίσ τοῖσ πλείστοισ μία πᾶσιν καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο τῆσ γυμναστικῆσ ἔργον ἐστίν, ἔτι δ’ ἐάν τισ μὴ τῆσ ἱκνουμένησ ἐπιθυμῇ μήθ’ ἕξεωσ μήτ’ ἐπιστήμησ τῶν περὶ τὴν ἀγωνίαν, μηδὲν ἧττον τοῦ παιδοτρίβου καὶ τοῦ γυμναστικοῦ παρασκευάσαι γε καὶ ταύτην ἐστὶ τὴν δύναμιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 3:1)
  • καὶ μέλλων ἀντιλαμβάνειν τοῦτον τὸν ἔρανον ὅταν τύχῃ τῆσ ἱκνουμένησ ἡλικίασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 226:1)

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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