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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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅταν μάλιστα εὐπορῇσ, τότε πρὸ τῆσ ἀπορίασ μηχανῶ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 13:7)
  • μηχανῶ τοίνυν, ἔφη, ὅπωσ ἐσ τὴν δύναμιν τεταγμένοισ τε τοῖσ σαυτοῦ ἀτάκτουσ λαμβάνῃσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ καὶ ὡπλισμένοισ ἀόπλουσ καὶ ἐγρηγορόσι καθεύδοντασ, καὶ φανερούσ σοι ὄντασ ἀφανὴσ αὐτὸσ ὢν ἐκείνοισ καὶ ἐν δυσχωρίᾳ αὐτοὺσ γιγνομένουσ ἐν ἐρυμνῷ αὐτὸσ ὢν ὑποδέξῃ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 41:3)
  • νῦν ὦν εἴ τινα ἔχεισ σοφίην, μηχανῶ ὡσ ἂν ἡμεῖσ σχῶμεν τοῦτο τὸ γέρασ καὶ μὴ ἄλλοσ τισ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 85 2:5)

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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