Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἔνειμι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνειμι ἔνέσομαι

Structure: ἐν (Prefix) + έ̓ς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Etym.: ei)mi/ sum

Sense

  1. to be in, to be among
  2. to be there, be in abundance, as there was, there, that were in the place
  3. to be possible
  4. it is in one's power, one may or can
  5. since it was in, was possible
  6. all things possible

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

  • εἰ μή σ’ ἀπολέσαιμ’, εἴ τι τῶν αὐτῶν ἐμοὶ ψευδῶν ἐνείη, διαπέσοιμι πανταχῇ. (Aristotle, Lyric-Scene, iambics3)
  • οὐδ’ εἴ μοι δέκα μὲν χεῖρεσ, δέκα δὲ στόματ’ εἰε͂ν, γαστὴρ δ’ ἄρρηκτοσ, χάλκεον δέ μοι ἦτορ ἐνείη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 20:4)
  • ὁκόσοι δὲ κοῖλα χωρία καὶ λειμακώδεα καὶ πνιγηρὰ καὶ τῶν θερμῶν πνευμάτων πλέον μέροσ μετέχουσιν ἢ τῶν ψυχρῶν ὕδασί τε χρέονται θερμοῖσιν, οὗτοι δὲ μεγάλοι μὲν οὐκ ἂν εἰήσαν οὐδὲ κανονίαι, ἐσ εὖροσ δὲ πεφυκότεσ καὶ σαρκώδεεσ καὶ μελανότριχεσ, καὶ αὐτοὶ μέλανεσ μᾶλλον ἢ λευκότεροι, φλεγματίαι δὲ ἧσσον ἢ χολώδεεσ‧ τὸ δὲ ἀνδρεῖον καὶ τὸ ταλαίπωρον ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ φύσει μὲν οὐκ ἂν ὁμοίωσ ἐνείη, νόμοσ δὲ προσγενόμενοσ ἀπεργάζοιτ’ ἄν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxiv.6)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐκ παντὸσ εἰσ πᾶν φέρεσθαί τι καὶ μεταλαμβάνεσθαι καὶ μίαν ἁπάντων εἶναι σύμπνοιάν τε καὶ σύρροιαν, ὡσ Ἱπποκράτησ ἔλεγεν, ἤδη μοι δοκῶ δεδεῖχθαι σαφῶσ καὶ μηκέτ’ ἄν τινα, μηδ’ εἰ βραδὺσ αὐτῷ νοῦσ ἐνείη, περὶ τῶν τοιούτων ἀπορῆσαι μηδενόσ, οἱο͂ν ὅπωσ ἡ γαστὴρ ἢ τὰ ἔντερα τρέφεται καὶ τίνα τρόπον ἐκ τῆσ ἐσχάτησ ἐπιφανείασ εἴσω τι διικνεῖται. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1352)
  • ἀλλὰ μὲν ᾧ τὰ πρῶτα μελάγχιμον ἰὸν ἐνείη ζωόντων, ὅσα γαῖα φερέσβιοσ ἔμπνοα βόσκει, οὐδ’ ὁπόσον πήχυιον ἐσ Αἴδα γίγνεται οἶμοσ, οὐδ’ εἰ Παιήων, εἴ μοι θέμισ ἀμφαδὸν εἰπεῖν, φαρμάσσοι, ὅτε μοῦνον ἐνιχρίμψῃσιν ὀδοῦσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 24:16)

Synonyms

  1. to be in

  2. to be possible

  3. it is in one's power

  4. since it was in

  5. all things possible

Derived

Similar forms

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

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