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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

  • "ὡσ πολλῷ κάλλιον, ὦ φίλαι, ἐστὶν ἐν παρατάξει νικῶντα τελευτᾶν ἢ τὰ Ὀλύμπια περιγιγνόμενον ζῆν. (Plutarch, Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, , section 212)
  • τῆσ δὴ σαρκοειδοῦσ φύσεωσ οὐ καταξηραινομένησ λέμμα μεῖζον περιγιγνόμενον ἐχωρίζετο, δέρμα τὸ νῦν λεγόμενον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 380:3)

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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