Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀντίκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀντίκειμαι

Structure: ἀντι (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Etym.: used as pass. of a)ntiti/qhmi

Sense

  1. to be set over against, lie opposite, by way of opposition

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

  • ἀντίκειται δὴ πάλιν κἀνταῦθα τῷ μὲν ἐκήδοντο τὸ ἀπείχοντο, τῷ δὲ οἰκείων τὸ μηδὲν προσηκόντων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 1:8)
  • τὸ μὲν γάρ καταδῦναι τὸν ἣλιον ἀναγκαῖὸν θ’ ἅμα καὶ δυνατόν, ἀντίκειται δ’ ἀδύνατον τὸ μὴ καταδῦναι· (Plutarch, De fato, section 6 10:2)
  • καὶ τούτοισ οὐχ ἥκιστα τοῖσ πάθεσιν ἐνδείκνυται τὸ ψυχρόν, ὅτι πρὸσ τὸ θερμὸν ὡσ οὐσία πρὸσ οὐσίαν ἢ πάθοσ πρὸσ πάθοσ οὐχ ὡσ ἀπόφασισ ἀντίκειται καὶ στέρησισ, οὐδὲ φθορὰ τίσ ἐστι τοῦ θερμοῦ καὶ ἀναίρεσισ ἀλλὰ φθαρτικὴ φύσισ καὶ δύναμισ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 6 3:3)
  • ἀντίκειται γὰρ ὡσ τῷ λαμπρῷ τὸ ζοφερὸν οὕτω τῷ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 9 1:4)
  • ἀντίκειται γὰρ τῇ ψυχρότητι πρὸσ τὴν θερμότητα τοῦ πυρόσ, ὥσπερ τῇ ὑγρότητι πρὸσ τὴν ξηρότητα καὶ τῇ βαρύτητι πρὸσ τὴν κουφότητα. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 16 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. to be set over against

Derived

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

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