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περιγίγνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιγίγνομαι περιγενήσομαι περιεγενόμην περιγέγονα

Structure: περι (Prefix) + γίγν (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be superior to, to prevail over, overcome, excel, to be superior, prevail
  2. they gain any advantage, have a superiority in
  3. to live over, get over, to survive, escape, the survivors, he survived
  4. to remain over and above
  5. to be a result or consequence, the upshot, is

Conjugation

Present tense

Future 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

  • τοῦ δὲ πένητοσ ζῆν φειδόμενον καὶ τοῖσ ἔργοισ προσ έχοντα, περιγίγνεσθαι δ’ αὐτῷ μηδέν, μὴ μέντοι μηδ’ ἐπιλείπειν. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:15)
  • οὐ γὰρ εὑρήσετε, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ τούτου μόνου περιγίγνεσθαι μέλλοντοσ, παθεῖν ἀδίκωσ τι κακὸν τὸν ταῦτ’ εἰπόντα καὶ γράψαντα, μηδὲν δ’ ὠφελῆσαι τὰ πράγματα, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰσ τὸ λοιπὸν μᾶλλον ἔτ’ ἢ νῦν τὸ τὰ βέλτιστα λέγειν φοβερώτερον ποιῆσαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 17:2)
  • ὡσ γάρ, εἰ κἂν ταῖσ χερσί τινα σιτία κατέχοντεσ ἀλλήλων ἁρπάζοιμεν, εἰ μὲν ὁμοίωσ εἰήμεν δεόμενοι, περιγίγνεσθαι τὸν ἰσχυρότερον εἰκόσ, εἰ δ’ οὗτοσ μὲν ἐμπεπλησμένοσ εἰή καὶ διὰ τοῦτ’ ἀμελῶσ κατέχων τὰ περιττὰ ἢ καί τινι μεταδοῦναι ποθῶν, ὁ δ’ ἀσθενέστεροσ ὀρέγοιτο δεινῶσ, οὐδὲν ἂν εἰή κώλυμα τοῦ μὴ πάντα λαβεῖν αὐτόν, οὕτω καὶ ἡ γαστὴρ ἐκ τοῦ ἥπατοσ ἐπισπᾶται Ῥᾳδίωσ, ὅταν αὐτὴ μὲν ἱκανῶσ ὀρέγηται τροφῆσ, ἐμπεπλησμένον δ’ ᾖ τὸ σπλάγχνον. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1318)
  • καὶ τοῖσ μὲν ἰσχυροῖσ ἐγχωρεῖ μηδὲν αὐτοῖσ πάσχουσιν, οὓσ ἂν βουληθῶσιν, ὑβρίζειν, τοῖσ δὲ ἀσθενέσιν οὐκ ἔστιν οὔτε ὑβριζομένοισ ἀμύνεσθαι τοὺσ ὑπάρξαντασ οὔτε ὑβρίζειν βουλομένοισ περιγίγνεσθαι τῶν ἀδικουμένων. (Lysias, Speeches, 23:1)
  • καὶ οὕτωσ ὑμεῖσ μὲν τὰ δίκαια γνώσεσθε πάντεσ, ἐγὼ δὲ τούτων ὑμῖν τυχὼν ἕξω τὴν χάριν, οὗτοσ δὲ τοῦ λοιποῦ μαθήσεται μὴ τοῖσ ἀσθενεστέροισ ἐπιβουλεύειν ἀλλὰ τῶν ὁμοίων αὐτῷ περιγίγνεσθαι. (Lysias, Speeches, 34:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be superior to

  2. to live over

  3. to remain over and above

  4. to be a result or consequence

Derived

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

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