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

  • ὅσοι δ’ ἑκουσίοισιν ἔγκεινται βλάβαισ, ὥσπερ σύ, τούτοισ οὔτε συγγνώμην ἔχειν δίκαιόν ἐστιν οὔτ’ ἐποικτίρειν τινά. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 3:4)
  • εἰ δ’ ἔγκεινται, τί δεῖ ταῦτ’ ἀποδύρασθαι; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 18:16)
  • χωρὶσ δὲ τούτων οὐδ’ ἐν τούτῳ σχολῆσ εἰε͂ν ἂν νῦν, ἀλλὰ Θηβαῖοι μὲν ἔγκεινται, νομίζοντεσ ἕτοιμον εἶναι σφίσι Λακεδαιμονίουσ ἀνελεῖν, καὶ οὐδ’ ἂν ἐπὶ τῇ βασιλέωσ ἀρχῇ τούτων τῶν ἔργων πρὸσ οἷσ εἰσι νῦν ἀποσταῖεν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 11:9)

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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