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ἄπειμι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπειμι

Structure: ἀπ (Prefix) + έ̓ς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Etym.: ei)mi/ sum

Sense

  1. to be away or far from, to be wanting
  2. to be away or absent, to be wanting

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

  • οἱ δὲ πολλῷ πλέον ἢ ὅσον ᾤοντο ἀναλώσειν ἔφασαν δώσειν τοῦ μὴ ὀχλεῖσθαι καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ἀπεῖναι. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 112:2)
  • οὕτω δὴ δέεται Ἀλεξάνδρου Νέαρχοσ ἀπεῖναι τὸν ἄνδρα, καὶ ἀπίεται. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 36 2:3)
  • τί δὲ προσῆν, ὧν δεῖ ἀπεῖναι; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 14)
  • καὶ ὁτὲ μὲν ἀπεῖναι εὖ πράττοντα τὸν φιλούμενον βουλόμεθα, ὁτὲ δὲ μετέχειν τῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ ἅμα βούλεσθαι εἶναι φιλικόν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 253:1)
  • ὁτὲ μὲν γὰρ βουλόμεθα τοὺσ φίλουσ ἀπεῖναι οὐδὲ λυπεῖν, ὅταν μηθὲν μέλλωσι ποιήσειν πλέον· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 259:1)

Synonyms

  1. to be away or far from

  2. to be away or absent

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Derived

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

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