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

  • οἶδ’ ἐγὼ καὶ τοὺσ Λάκωνασ, οἷσ ἄγαν ἐγκείμεθα, οὐχ ἁπάντων ὄντασ ἡμῖν αἰτίουσ τῶν πραγμάτων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parodos, trochees4)
  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ πολλαῖσ συμφοραῖσ ἐγκείμεθα. (Euripides, Helen, episode 1:2)

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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