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προγίγνομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προγίγνομαι προγενήσομαι προὐγενόμην προγέγονα

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

Sense

  1. to come forwards, came in sight
  2. to be born before, exist before, former
  3. things of old time

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

  • Ὁκόταν ἀλγήματα προγένηται, μελαίνησ χολῆσ καὶ δριμέων Ῥευμάτων ἐπιῤῬύσιεσ γίγνονται‧ ἀλγέει δὲ τὰ ἐντὸσ δακνόμενοσ‧ δηχθεῖσαι δὲ καὶ λίην ξηραὶ γενόμεναι αἱ φλέβεσ ἐντείνονταί τε καὶ φλεγμαίνουσαι ἐπισπῶνται τὰ ἐπιῤῬέοντα‧ ὅθεν διαφθαρέντοσ τοῦ αἵματοσ, καὶ τῶν πνευμάτων οὐ δυναμένων ἐν αὐτῷ τὰσ κατὰ φύσιν ὁδοὺσ βαδίζειν, καταψύξιέσ τε γίγνονται ὑπὸ τῆσ στάσιοσ, καὶ σκοτώσιεσ, καὶ ἀφωνίη, καὶ καρηβαρίη, καὶ σπασμοὶ, ἢν ἤδη ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίην ἢ τὸ ἧπαρ ἢ ἐπὶ τὴν φλέβα ἔλθῃ‧ ἔνθεν ἐπίληπτοι γίγνονται ἢ παραπλῆγεσ, ἢν ἐσ τοὺσ περιέχοντασ τόπουσ ἐμπέσῃ τὰ Ῥεύματα, καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν πνευμάτων οὐ δυναμένων διεξιέναι καταξηρανθῇ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 5.1)
  • οὐχ αὗται τῶν ἡδονῶν ὑπερβάλλουσιν, ὧν ἂν καὶ ἐπιθυμίαι μέγισται προγίγνωνται; (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 207:3)

Synonyms

  1. to come forwards

Derived

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

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