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ὀριγνάομαι

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀριγνάομαι

Structure: ὀριγνά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: o)re/gomai

Sense

  1. to stretch oneself, they fought with outstretched
  2. to stretch oneself after, reach at, grasp at

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

  • καί τε συναί̈γδην ὡσ εἰ ζωοί περ ἐόντεσ ἔγχεσιν ἠδ’ ἐλάτῃσ αὐτοσχεδὸν ὠριγνῶντο. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 18:4)

Synonyms

  1. to stretch oneself after

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

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