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

  • ἐπεὶ Κρέοντοσ παῖσ ὁ γῆσ ὑπερθανὼν πύργων ἐπ’ ἄκρων στὰσ μελάνδετον ξίφοσ λαιμῶν διῆκε τῇδε γῇ σωτήριον, λόχουσ ἔνειμεν ἑπτὰ καὶ λοχαγέτασ πύλασ ἐφ’ ἑπτά, φύλακασ Ἀργείου δορόσ, σὸσ παῖσ, ἐφέδρουσ <δ’> ἱππότασ μὲν ἱππόταισ ἔταξ’, ὁπλίτασ δ’ ἀσπιδηφόροισ ἔπι, ὡσ τῷ νοσοῦντι τειχέων εἰή δορὸσ ἀλκὴ δι’ ὀλίγου. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode23)
  • τὸ δ’ ὅλον τὸ πρὸσ τὰ τοιαῦτα νενευκὸσ τοῖσ μνηστῆρσι καὶ τοῖσ Φαίαξιν ἔνειμεν, ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ Νέστορι οὐδὲ Μενελάῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 91)
  • ἡ δὲ μεταδοῦσα τῶν ἑαυτῆσ ἀγαθῶν ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισ καὶ τηλικούτῳ κατασπείρασα πλούτῳ βάρβαρόν τε καὶ Ἑλλάδα γῆν τούτοισ ἀξία κοσμεῖσθαι τοῖσ ῥήμασιν, ὅτι οὐκ ἐφθόνησε τῶν σπερμάτων καὶ ὅτι ἔνειμεν αὐτὰ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 29 1:8)
  • ὃ μὲν γὰρ ἦν ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν ἔργον, ἅπασι πέπρακται, τῇ τύχῃ δέ, ἣν ὁ δαίμων ἔνειμεν ἑκάστοισ, ταύτῃ κέχρηνται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 31 6:1)
  • ἐν δὲ συγκλήτῳ πολλὰ δημοτικὰ καὶ φιλάνθρωπα διαλεχθείσ, ὃν μὲν αὐτὸσ ὑπατεύειν χρόνον ἤμελλε, τούτου μέροσ ἔνειμεν Οὐεργινίῳ Ῥούφῳ, τοῖσ δὲ ἀποδεδειγμένοισ ὑπὸ Νέρωνοσ ἢ Γάλβα πᾶσιν ἐτήρησε τὰσ ὑπατείασ. (Plutarch, Otho, chapter 1 2:1)

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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