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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

  • ἐν δεξιᾷ μὲν οὖν εἰσιόντι Ἀργολικῷ μύθῳ ἀναμέμικται πάθοσ Αἰθιοπικὸν ὁ Περσεὺσ τὸ κῆτοσ φονεύει καὶ τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν καθαιρεῖ, καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν γαμήσει καὶ ἄπεισιν αὐτὴν ἄγων πάρεργον τοῦτο τῆσ ἐπὶ Γοργόνασ πτήσεωσ. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 22:1)
  • εἰκόνεσ δὲ ἐκεῖναι καὶ νεῴ, οὓσ ἀνιστᾶσιν αἱ πόλεισ θεραπεύουσαι, καὶ τὸ μέγα ὄνομα πάντα κατ̓ ὀλίγον ἀπορρεῖ καὶ ἄπεισιν ἀμελούμενα. (Lucian, 68:3)
  • ὅσαι δ’ ἄπεισιν, ἐξ ὄρουσ θηράσομαι, Ἰνώ τ’ Ἀγαύην θ’, ἥ μ’ ἔτικτ’ Ἐχίονι, Ἀκταίονόσ τε μητέρ’, Αὐτονόην λέγω. (Euripides, episode 2:2)
  • πᾶσι γὰρ ἄφθονα πάντα παρέξομεν, ὥστε μεθυσθεὶσ αὐτῷ στεφάνῳ πᾶσ τισ ἄπεισιν τὴν δᾷδα λαβών. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, pnigos2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐμοὶ τἀναντία δοκεῖ, ὦ πάτερ, μὴ συνταράττειν τὸν οὐρανὸν μηδὲ δῆλον εἶναι θορυβούμενον τῷ πράγματι, πράττειν δὲ ἰδίᾳ ταῦτα ἐξ ὧν κρατήσει μὲν ὁ Τιμοκλῆσ λέγων, ὁ Δᾶμισ δὲ καταγελασθεὶσ ἄπεισιν ἐκ τῆσ συνουσίασ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 5:7)

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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