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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

  • τεκμαίρομαι δὲ μηδ’ ἀπαιτεῖσθαι τὰ χρέα τοὺσ ὀφείλοντασ ἐνταῦθα μηδὲ φόρουσ ὑποτελεῖν, τὸ δέ μέγιστον, μηδὲ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ χειμῶνοσ μηδὲ νοσεῖν μηδ’ ὑπὸ τῶν δυνατωτέρων ῥαπίζεσθαι. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 15:3)
  • ἤκμασε δὲ μετὰ τὸν Πελοποννησιακὸν πόλεμον, ὡσ ἐκ λόγων αὐτοῦ τεκμαίρομαι, καὶ μέχρι τῆσ Φιλίππου δυναστείασ παρεξέτεινε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 1 1:2)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ ὁ ἄρχων οὑτοσὶ διίστησιν αὐτοὺσ καὶ λύει τὴν μάχην ‐ τεκμαίρομαι γὰρ τῇ πορφυρίδι τῶν ἀρχόντων τινὰ τοῦτον εἶναι ‐ ὁ δὲ καὶ ἐποτρύνει καὶ τὸν πατάξαντα ἐπαινεῖ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 3:3)
  • τεκμαίρομαι δέ, ὅτι τῆσ μὲν Θουκυδίδου λέξεωσ καὶ Δημοσθένουσ, οἳ δεινότατοι πράγματα ἐξειπεῖν ἐγένοντο, πολλὰ δυσείκαστά ἐστιν ἡμῖν καὶ ἀσαφῆ καὶ δεόμενα ἐξηγητῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 43)
  • τεκμαίρομαι γὰρ τῇ εἰρεσίᾳ τῶν πτερῶν σὺ δὲ αὐτοῦ περίμενε· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 40:4)

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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