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μηχανάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηχανάομαι

Structure: μηχανά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: mhxanh/

Sense

  1. to prepare, make ready
  2. to contrive, devise, to cause, effect, to form designs, to contrive to, that
  3. to procure for oneself
  4. contriving

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

  • ἀλλὰ μηχανᾷ τάδε. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:15)
  • πυκνῇ γὰρ λεπτὰ μηχανᾷ φρενί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:38)
  • τόδ’ ἤδη δόλιον ἔσ με μηχανᾷ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 10:22)
  • ἀτάρ, ἔφη, πότερον τῇ τύχῃ ἐπιτρέπεισ, ἐάν τίσ σοι φίλοσ ὥσπερ μυῖα πρόσπτηται, ἢ καὶ αὐτή τι μηχανᾷ; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 11 6:2)
  • μέχρισ δ’ ἂν τούτων ἀμελῇσ, αἰσχρόν σ’ εἶναι ἀνάγκη, κἂν πάντα μηχανᾷ ὑπὲρ τοῦ φαίνεσθαί σε καλόν. (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. to prepare

  2. to contrive

  3. to procure for oneself

  4. contriving

Derived

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

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