προσζεύγνυμι
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
A attach by a yoke, τὸ ἄροτρον Porph.Abst.2.30: metaph., τῇ ὕλῃ τὸν τεχνίτην προσέζευξεν Placit.1.3.5:—more freq. in Pass., to be yoked, harnessed to, τινι Luc.Ner.4: abs., to be attached, ᾗ τὸ πηδάλιον προσέζευκται Arist.Mech.851a33: metaph., τῷ προσέζευξαι πλάνῳ; E.Alc.482, cf. Plot.1.4.16; to be contiguous, πύργοις J. BJ5.4.4.
German (Pape)
[Seite 764] (s. ζεύγνυμι), anjochen, -binden, übertr., οἵᾳ συμφορᾷ προσεζύγης, Eur. Hipp. 1389.
French (Bailly abrégé)
attacher à ; Pass. être attaché à, τινι.
Étymologie: πρός, ζεύγνυμι.
Greek Monolingual
Α
1. συνάπτω στον ζυγό, ενώνω με ζυγό κάτι με κάτι άλλο («προσζεύγνυμι τὸ ἄροτρον», Πορφ.)
2. συνδέω, συναρμόζω (α. «τή ὕλῃ τὸν τεχνίτην προσέζευξεν», Πλούτ.
β. «ἡ τὸ πηδάλιον προσέζευκται», Αριστοτ.)
3. παθ. προσζεύγνυμαι
συνέχομαι, συνορεύω («ἡ τοῦ βασιλέως αὐλὴ προσέζευκτο», Ιώσ.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < προσ- + ζεύγνυμι «ενώνω, συνάπτω»].
