Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • εἶτα τἄλλ’ ὅμοια πάντα σφηξὶ μηχανώμεθα. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parabasis, antepirrheme3)
  • ἐρῶμεν ἀλλοτρίων, παρορῶμεν συγγενεῖσ, ἔχοντεσ οὐδὲν εὐποροῦμεν τοῖσ πέλασ, ἐράνουσ φέροντεσ οὐ φέρομεν ἀλλ’ ἢ κακῶσ, τακτῆσ τροφῆσ δὲ τῆσ καθ’ ἡμέραν πάλιν γλιχόμεθα τὴν μὲν μᾶζαν ἵνα λευκὴ παρῇ, ζωμὸν δὲ ταύτῃ μέλανα μηχανώμεθα, τὸ καλόν τε χρῶμα δευσοποιῷ χρῴζομεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 97 1:3)
  • τὸ δὲ καὶ λογισμὸν ἡμῖν ἐμφῦσαι, ᾧ περὶ ὧν αἰσθανόμεθα λογιζόμενοί τε καὶ μνημονεύοντεσ καταμανθάνομεν ὅπῃ ἕκαστα συμφέρει, καὶ πολλὰ μηχανώμεθα, δι’ ὧν τῶν τε ἀγαθῶν ἀπολαύομεν καὶ τὰ κακὰ ἀλεξόμεθα· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 3 12:2)

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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