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περιφαίνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιφαίνομαι

Structure: περιφαίν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be visible all round

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

  • ἡ δὲ σελήνη κἂν ὅλον ποτὲ κρύψῃ τὸν ἣλιον, οὐκ ἔχει χρόνον οὐδὲ πλάτοσ ἡ ἔκλειψισ, ἀλλὰ περιφαίνεταί τισ αὐγὴ περὶ τὴν ἴτυν, οὐκ ἐῶσα βαθεῖαν γενέσθαι τὴν σκιὰν καὶ ἄκρατον. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 19 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be visible all round

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

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