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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

  • νυνὶ δὲ οὐχ οὕτωσ, ἀλλὰ τῷ ἐπαινουμένῳ παρὰ Θεῷ λογισμῷ περιεγένετο τῶν παθῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 13:3)
  • ἐνταῦθα γὰρ τὸ μὲν ἐθέλοιμεν ῥῆμα τοῦ μέλλοντόσ ἐστι χρόνου δηλωτικόν, τὸ δὲ περιγίγνεται τοῦ παρόντοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 123)
  • ταῦτα πάντα τῷ στεφάνῳ ὅν φημι συναναπέπλεκται καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ ἐκείνου περιγίγνεται ἐφ’ ὃν αἱ ἀσκήσεισ αὗται καὶ οἱ πόνοι ἄγουσιν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 15:4)
  • ἀτεχνῶσ γὰρ τὸ Δελφικὸν ἐκεῖνο τὸ Γνῶθι σεαυτὸν ἐκ τῆσ θέασ αὐτοῖσ περιγίγνεται, καὶ ἀπέρχονται ἀπὸ τοῦ θεάτρου ἅ τε χρὴ αἱρεῖσθαι καὶ ἃ φεύγειν μεμαθηκότεσ καὶ ἃ πρότερον ἠγνόουν διδαχθέντεσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 81:4)
  • φέρ’ οὖν ἴδωμεν εἰ ἀληθῆ λέγουσιν καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ῥᾴστου, μὴ πολλὰ μηδὲ πλείω τῶν ἄλλων πονοῦσι, περιγίγνεται αὐτοῖσ τὰ διδόμενα· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 6:3)
  • μήτι δ’ ἡνιόχων περιγίγνομαι, οἷσι καὶ ἵππουσ κρείσσονασ ἀντιπορὼν, δεῖξα χερειοτέρουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 341 1:1)

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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