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λυμαίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυμαίνομαι

Structure: λυμαίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: lu/mh

Sense

  1. to treat with indignity, to outrage, to maltreat, used to murder, spoils
  2. to inflict indignities or outrages upon
  3. to cause ruin

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

  • εἰσ τοῦτο δὲ μωρίασ ἐληλύθαμεν, ὥστ’ αὐτοὶ μὲν ἐνδεεῖσ ἐσμεν τῶν καθ’ ἡμέραν, ξενοτροφεῖν δὲ ἐπικεχειρήκαμεν καὶ τοὺσ συμμάχουσ τοὺσ ἡμετέρουσ αὐτῶν ἰδίᾳ λυμαινόμεθα καὶ δασμολογοῦμεν, ἵνα τοῖσ ἁπάντων κοινοῖσ ἀνθρώπων ἐχθροῖσ τὸν μισθὸν ἐκπορίζωμεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 17 2:3)
  • μετὰ τοῦτον ἄλλοσ ἀνέστη, ἐπιδεικνὺσ μὲν τὴν εὐήθειαν τοῦ τὰ πλοῖα αἰτεῖν κελεύοντοσ, ὥσπερ πάλιν τὸν στόλον Κύρου ποιουμένου, ἐπιδεικνὺσ δὲ ὡσ εὐήθεσ εἰή ἡγεμόνα αἰτεῖν παρὰ τούτου ᾧ λυμαινόμεθα τὴν πρᾶξιν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. to inflict indignities or outrages upon

  2. to cause ruin

Derived

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

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