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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

  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ οὐδέν, τῷ δ’ ἔνεισιν ἐλπίδεσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 1:22)
  • ἔνεισιν οἵδε· (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 5:44)
  • ἐνταῦθ’ ἔνεισιν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 6:40)
  • καὶ φροντίδων, ὅσαι τῷ συγγραφεῖ ἔνεισιν, ἀνέξω ἐμαυτὸν εὖ ποιῶν, παραίνεσιν δέ τινα μικρὰν καὶ ὑποθήκασ ταύτασ ὀλίγασ ὑποθήσομαι τοῖσ συγγράφουσιν, ὡσ κοινωνήσαιμι αὐτοῖσ τῆσ οἰκοδο μίασ, εἰ καὶ μὴ τῆσ ἐπιγραφῆσ, ἄκρῳ γε τῷ δακτύλῳ τοῦ πηλοῦ προσαψάμενοσ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 4 1:3)
  • οὔτε γὰρ μεταφοραί τινεσ ἔνεισιν εὐγενεῖσ οὔτε ὑπαλλαγαὶ οὔτε καταχρήσεισ οὔτ’ ἄλλη τροπικὴ διάλεκτοσ οὐδεμία, οὐδὲ δὴ γλῶτται παλαιαί τινεσ οὐδὲ ξένα ἢ πεποιημένα ὀνόματα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 331)

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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