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προκατάρχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προκατάρχομαι προκατάρξομαι

Structure: προ (Prefix) + ὑπερ (Prefix) + ά̓ρχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to begin, before, to begin hostilities
  2. to serve, with, first portion of

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

  • δεῖν μέντοι προκατάρχεσθαι ̔καὶ γὰρ τὴν γῆν σπείρομεν̓, συνίστασθαι δὲ αὐτὴν κατὰ κοινωνίαν τοῖσ ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ ἐκπεπληρωμ <ένοισ>. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 120:26)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ αὐτῷ πάντα τὰ πρὸσ τὸν πόλεμον κατεσκεύαστο, πρὸσ τὴν Σεμίραμιν καθ’ ὁδὸν οὖσαν ἀπέστειλεν ἀγγέλουσ, ἐγκαλῶν ὅτι προκατάρχεται τοῦ πολέμου μηδὲν ἀδικηθεῖσα· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 18 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. to begin

Derived

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

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