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κυί̈σκομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυί̈σκομαι

Structure: κυί̈σκ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: only in pres.

Sense

  1. to conceive, become pregnant

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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.

Examples

  • ἐὰν δ’ ἐναποπνιγῇ τρίγλη ζῶσα ἐν οἴνῳ καὶ τοῦτο ἀνήρ πίῃ, ἀφροδισιάζειν οὐ δυνήσεται, ὡσ Τερψικλῆσ ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἀφροδισίων, κἂν γυνὴ δὲ πίῃ τοῦ αὐτοῦ οἴνου, οὐ κυίσκεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1271)
  • χρονίη μὲν ἡ τῆσ νούσου φυὴ, μακρῷ κυί̈σκεται χρόνῳ· βραχύβιοσ δὲ ὥνθρωποσ, ἢν ἡ κατάστασισ τελεσθῇ · ὀξείη γὰρ ἡ τηκεδὼν, ταχὺσ δὲ ὁ θάνατοσ, ποτὶ καὶ βίοσ αἰσχρὸσ καὶ ἐπίπονοσ· δίψοσ ἀκρατέσ · πολυποσίη ἀνισόμε τροσ οὔροισι πολλοῖσι · πλεῖον γὰρ ἐκρεῖ τὸ οὖρον, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἐπίσχοι τισ αὐτέουσ, οὔτε πίνοντασ οὔτε οὐρέοντασ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 49)
  • προσωτέρω γὰρ οὐκέτι κυΐσκεται τούτου τοῦ χρόνου γυνή, ἀλλ’ ἔστιν οὗτοσ αὐτὸσ τῶν ὠδίνων ὁ ὁρ́οσ, ὡσ οἱ ταῦτ’ ἐξητακότεσ γράφουσιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 6 8:3)

Synonyms

  1. to conceive

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

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