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ὀριγνάομαι?

α-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: orignaomai

Principal Part: ὀριγνάομαι

Structure: ὀριγνά (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

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

Examples

  • καί τε συναΐγδην ὡς εἰ ζωοί περ ἐόντες ἔγχεσιν ἠδ ἐλάτῃς αὐτοσχεδὸν ὠριγνῶντο. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 18:4)
  • ἤτοι ὅγ ὠριγνᾶτο νεοκλώστου τελαμῶνος, κουφίζων ἑτέρᾳ κολεὸν μέγα, λώτινον ἔργον. (Theocritus, Idylls, 25)

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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