Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

οἰωνίζομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰωνίζομαι

Structure: οἰωνίζ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take omens from the flight and cries of birds
  2. to divine from omens, augur

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

  • οὐχ εὑρεθήσεται ἐν σοὶ περικαθαίρων τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἢ τὴν θυγατέρα αὐτοῦ ἐν πυρί, μαντευόμενοσ μαντείαν, κληδονιζόμενοσ καὶ οἰωνιζόμενοσ, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 18:10)
  • ἔπειτα ναὸν ἐκ τῶν Σικελικῶν λαφύρων ᾠκοδομημένον ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ Δόξησ καὶ Ἀρετῆσ καθιερῶσαι βουλόμενοσ, καὶ κωλυθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἱερέων οὐκ ἀξιούντων ἑνὶ ναῷ δύο θεοὺσ περιέχεσθαι, πάλιν ἤρξατο προσοικοδομεῖν ἕτερον, οὐ ῥᾳδίωσ φέρων τὴν γεγενημένην ἀντίκρουσιν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἰωνιζόμενοσ, καὶ γὰρ ἄλλα πολλὰ σημεῖα διετάραττεν αὐτόν, ἱερῶν τινων κεραυνώσεισ καὶ μύεσ τὸν ἐν Διὸσ χρυσὸν διαφαγόντεσ ἐλέχθη δὲ καὶ βοῦν ἀνθρώπου φωνὴν ἀφεῖναι καὶ παιδίον ἔχον κεφαλὴν ἐλέφαντοσ γενέσθαι· (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 28 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. to take omens from the flight and cries of birds

Derived

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

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