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

  • ὁ δὲ βορέησ οὐ σφόδρα ἀφ ικνεῖται‧ ὁκόταν δὲ πνέῃ, ἀσθενὴσ καὶ βληχρόσ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xv.11)
  • ἱκνεῖται λόγοσ διὰ στηθέων, τριχὸσ δ’ ὀρθίασ πλόκαμοσ ἵσταται, μεγάλα μεγαληγόρων κλυούσᾳ ἀνοσίων ἀνδρῶν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 31)
  • ἱκνεῖται δὴ σινουμένα βέλει βουκόλου πτερόεντοσ Δῖον πάμβοτον ἄλσοσ, λειμῶνα χιονόβοσκον, ὅντ’ ἐπέρχεται Τυφῶ μένοσ, ὕδωρ τε Νείλου νόσοισ ἄθικτον, μαινομένα πόνοισ ἀτί‐ μοισ ὀδύναισ τε κεντροδα‐ λήτισι, θυιὰσ Ἥρασ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 31)
  • ἀλλὰ διπλῆσ γὰρ τῆσδε μαράγνησ δοῦποσ ἱκνεῖται· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, anapests3)
  • ͂̓Ηλθε καὶ ἐσ Μίλητον ὁ τοῦ Παιήονοσ υἱόσ, ἰητῆρι νόσων ἀνδρὶ συνοισόμενοσ Νικίᾳ, ὅσ μιν ἐπ’ ἦμαρ ἀεὶ θυέεσσιν ἱκνεῖται, καὶ τόδ’ ἀπ’ εὐώδουσ γλύψατ’ ἄγαλμα κέδρου, Ἠετίωνι χάριν γλαφυρᾶσ χερὸσ ἄκρον ὑποστὰσ μισθόν· (Theocritus, Idylls1)

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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