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

  • καὶ τεκμαιρόμεθα τῆσ μάχησ γενομένησ αἵματοσ ἐμπλησθέντα καὶ νεκρῶν τὸν ποταμὸν ταύτην διαλλάξαι τὴν προσηγορίαν. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 19 2:4)
  • "εἴτε μάγων τῶν περὶ Ζωροάστρην ὁ λόγοσ οὗτόσ ἐστιν, εἴτε Θρᾴκιοσ ἀπ’ Ὀρφέωσ εἴτ’ Αἰγύπτιοσ ἢ Φρύγιοσ, ὡσ τεκμαιρόμεθα ταῖσ ἑκατέρωθι τελεταῖσ ἀναμεμιγμένα πολλὰ θνητὰ καὶ πένθιμα τῶν ὀργιαζομένων καὶ δρωμένων ἱερῶν ὁρῶντεσ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 105)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐκείνουσ αὐτοὺσ ὁρῶμεν, ἀλλὰ ταῖσ τιμαῖσ ἃσ ἔχουσι, καὶ τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ ἃ παρέχουσιν, ἀθανάτουσ εἶναι τεκμαιρόμεθα· (Plutarch, , chapter 8 6:2)
  • οὗ τὴν ἐν τῷ βίῳ προαίρεσιν καὶ τὴν ἀσέλγειαν διὰ τῆσ ἐπιγραφῆσ τῆσ ἐπὶ τοῦ τάφου τεκμαιρόμεθα. (Polybius, Histories, book 8, chapter 10 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. to judge from signs and tokens

Related

Derived

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

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