Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔκκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκκειμαι

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

Sense

  1. to be cast out or exposed
  2. to be set up in public, posted up
  3. to fall from out, be left bare of

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

  • "ταῦτα δὲ πεντάκισ τριγωνισθέντα τὸν ἐκκείμενον ἀριθμὸν παρέσχεν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 12 1:9)
  • αὕτη καὶ Πίνδαρον εὑρ͂εν ἐκκείμενον ἐν Βοιωτίᾳ καὶ Τήλεφον ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ καὶ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ Ῥωμαίων ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 42:2)
  • ἐπορᾶν δὲ ἐκκείμενον τέταγμαι ἐγώ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 110 4:4)
  • "ἐπεὶ τοίνυν οὐ δύναμαί σε πείθειν μὴ ἐκθεῖναι, σὺ δὲ ὧδε ποίησον, εἰ δὴ πᾶσα ἀνάγκη ὀφθῆναι ἐκκείμενον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 112 3:4)
  • οἱ δὲ τοκέεσ παραλαβόντεσ τὸ οὔνομα τοῦτο, ἵνα θειοτέρωσ δοκέῃ τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι περιεῖναί σφι ὁ παῖσ, κατέβαλον φάτιν ὡσ ἐκκείμενον Κῦρον κύων ἐξέθρεψε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 122 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. to be cast out or exposed

Derived

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

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