Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τεκμαίρομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεκμαίρομαι

Structure: τεκμαίρ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Etym.: te/kmar

Sense

  1. to fix by a mark or boundary, to ordain, decree, to lay, upon, enjoin, appoint, to design, purpose
  2. to judge from signs and tokens, to form a judgment respecting, calculate, to conjecture, to judge by
  3. to shew by a sign or token, proves, gives signs, shew

Conjugation

Present 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

  • ἐτεκμαίρετο δὲ ταῖσ ἐκ τοῦ κηροῦ παιδιαῖσ· (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 2:4)
  • ἐτεκμαίρετο δὲ τὰσ ἀγαθὰσ φύσεισ ἐκ τοῦ ταχύ τε μανθάνειν οἷσ προσέχοιεν καὶ μνημονεύειν ἃ ἂν μάθοιεν καὶ ἐπιθυμεῖν τῶν μαθημάτων πάντων δι’ ὧν ἔστιν οἶκόν τε καλῶσ οἰκεῖν καὶ πόλιν καὶ τὸ ὅλον ἀνθρώποισ τε καὶ τοῖσ ἀνθρωπίνοισ πράγμασιν εὖ χρῆσθαι· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 3:2)
  • ἐτεκμαίρετο δὲ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων ὅτι οἵ τε ὑβρισταὶ ἵπποι ἐκτεμνόμενοι τοῦ μὲν δάκνειν καὶ ὑβρίζειν ἀποπαύονται, πολεμικοὶ δὲ οὐδὲν ἧττον γίγνονται, οἵ τε ταῦροι ἐκτεμνόμενοι τοῦ μὲν μέγα φρονεῖν καὶ ἀπειθεῖν ὑφίενται, τοῦ δ’ ἰσχύειν καὶ ἐργάζεσθαι οὐ στερίσκονται, καὶ οἱ κύνεσ δὲ ὡσαύτωσ τοῦ μὲν ἀπολείπειν τοὺσ δεσπότασ ἀποπαύονται ἐκτεμνόμενοι, φυλάττειν δὲ καὶ εἰσ θήραν οὐδὲν κακίουσ γίγνονται. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 73:2)
  • ἐτεκμαίρετο δὲ τοῦτο οὕτωσ ἕξειν ἐκ τοῦδε. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 33:1)
  • Καὶ Πομπήιοσ μὲν οὕτω τοῦ μέλλοντοσ ἀμελῶσ ἐτεκμαίρετο, ὁ δὲ Καῖσαρ, ὥσ μοι προείρητο, περὶ χειμερίουσ τροπὰσ ἐσ τὸ Βρεντέσιον ἠπείγετο, νομίζων τῷ ἀδοκήτῳ μάλιστα ἐκπλήξειν τοὺσ πολεμίουσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 8 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. to judge from signs and tokens

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Derived

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

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