Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔγκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκειμαι ἔγκείσομαι

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

Etym.: used as Pass. of e)nti/qhmi

Sense

  1. to lie in, be wrapped in, clothes
  2. to be involved in
  3. to press upon, pressing upon, was, urgent, he insists
  4. to be devoted to

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

  • καὶ τῷ μὲν καθ’ αὑτὸν ἐκράτησε μέρει καὶ προῆλθεν ὑποχωροῦντι τῷ ἀριστερῷ τῶν πολεμίων ἐγκείμενοσ· (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 49 3:1)
  • "ὅθεν ὁ τοῦ μέλλοντοσ ἀεὶ φόβοσ ἐγκείμενοσ οὐκ ἐᾷ χαίρειν οὐδὲ θαρρεῖν ἐπὶ τοῖσ παροῦσι ταῦτα δὲ καὶ πρὸσ ἑαυτοὺσ εἰρηκότεσ λελήθασιν. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 64)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ φίλαυτοσ ἦν ἰσχυρῶσ καὶ πολὺσ ἐγκείμενοσ τῷ Κοινὰ τὰ φίλων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. z'. BIWN 8:7)
  • ὁ γὰρ Εὐφαὴσ πλέον τι ἢ βασιλέα εἰκὸσ ἦν προθυμούμενοσ καὶ ἀφειδῶσ τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Θεόπομπον ἐγκείμενοσ τραύματα τε πολλά τε καὶ οὐκ ἰάσιμα λαμβάνει· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 5:1)
  • αἴτιοι δὲ οἵ τε ἅλεσ οἱ πηγνύμενοι καὶ ὁ νότοσ βαρὺσ καὶ βίαιοσ ἐγκείμενοσ, οἱ ἄνεμοί τε οἱ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἄρκτου διὰ τὸ ὑψηλὸν τῶν ὀρῶν τῶν πρὸσ τῆσ Ἰταλίασ κωλύονται πνέοντεσ θέρουσ ὡρ́ᾳ τόν τε ἀέρα τὸν ταύτῃ καὶ τὴν γῆν ἀναψύχειν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 17:3)

Synonyms

  1. to be involved in

  2. to press upon

  3. to be devoted to

Derived

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

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