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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

  • "τῶν τε μαλακίων τίκτουσιν πρῶται τοῦ ἐάροσ αἱ σηπίαι καὶ τίκτουσι πᾶσαν ὡρ́αν καὶ κυίσκονται πεντεκαίδεκα ἡμέραισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 123 2:5)
  • εἰ δ’, ὡσ Αἰγύπτιοι μυθολογοῦσι, θῆλυ πᾶν τὸ γένοσ ἐστὶ καὶ κυΐσκονται δεχόμενοι καταπνέοντα τὸν ἀπηλιώτην ὥσπερ τὰ δένδρα τὸν ζέφυρον, καὶ παντάπασιν ἀπλανῆ τὰ σημεῖα καὶ βέβαια γίγνεσθαι πιθανόν ἐστιν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 93 2:3)
  • εἰ δ’ ὡσ Αἰγύπτιοι μυθολογοῦσι θῆλυ πᾶν τὸ γένοσ ἐστὶ καὶ κυΐσκονται δεχόμενοι καταπνέοντα τὸν ἀπηλιώτην ὥσπερ τὰ δένδρα τὸν ζέφυρον, καὶ παντάπασιν ἀπλανῆ τὰ σημεῖα καὶ βέβαια γίγνεσθαι πιθανόν ἐστιν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 9313)
  • ἡγέονται δὲ οἱ ἔρσενεσ ἀπορραίνοντεσ τοῦ θοροῦ, αἳ δὲ ἑπόμεναι ἀνακάπτουσι καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ κυί̈σκονται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 93 2:3)

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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