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 ἢν μὲν πάνυ ἐν τῷ ἔμπροσθεν τὸ κάτηγμα ἐῄ, οἱο͂́ν τέ τι καὶ ἔσω τῶν μυκτήρων ἐντιθέναι, ὥσπερ ἤδη εἴρηται, ἢ ἄχνην τὴν ἀφ’ ἡμιτυβίου, ἢ ἄλλο τι τοιοῦτον ἐν ὀθονίῳ εἱλίσσοντα, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐν καρχηδονίῳ δέρματι ἐῤῬάψαντα, σχηματίσαντα τὸ ἁρμόσσον σχῆμα τῷ χωρίῳ, ἵνα ἐγκείσεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 37.2)
  • καὶ εἰ γνοίη τοῦθ’ ὁ δῆμοσ, ὅτι βουληθέντεσ καταλύειν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἰσχὺν ἀπετράπεσθε, πολὺ μᾶλλον ὑμῖν βαρὺσ ἐγκείσεται, πολέμιον μὲν τὸ βουλόμενον ὑμῶν ἡγούμενοσ, δειλὸν δὲ τὸ μὴ δυνάμενον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 24 5:2)
  • ἐγκείσεται γὰρ ὑμῖν πέρα τοῦ δέοντοσ βαρὺσ ὑπό τ’ αὐθαδείασ, ἣ φιλεῖ περὶ τὸ κρατοῦν ἀεὶ γίνεσθαι, καὶ ἀφροσύνησ, ἧσ πλεῖστον ὄχλοσ μετέχει μέροσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 62 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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