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

  • καίτοι βέλτιον ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ὁρᾶν ὅπωσ μὴ ἐνέσονται τοσοῦτον ὑπερέχοντεσ, ἢ ἐάσαντασ γενέσθαι ἰᾶσθαι ὕστερον. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 5 37:4)
  • εἰ δὲ διαφέρουσι, πότερον οὐκ ἐνέσονται πεντάδεσ ἄλλαι ἀλλὰ μόνον αὗται αἱ δύο, ἢ ἔσονται; (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 13 126:2)
  • εἴτε δὲ μὴ ἐνέσονται, ἄτοπον· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 13 126:3)
  • εἴτ’ ἐνέσονται, ποία ἔσται δεκὰσ ἐξ ἐκείνων; (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 13 127:1)
  • εἰ οὖν ὅν τ’ ἂν ᾖ χρόνον καὶ ὃν ἂν μὴ ᾖ ἄνθρωποσ, ἐνέσονται αὐτῷ ἀληθεῖσ δόξαι, αἳ ἐρωτήσει ἐπεγερθεῖσαι ἐπιστῆμαι γίγνονται, ἆρ’ οὖν τὸν ἀεὶ χρόνον μεμαθηκυῖα ἔσται ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 99:4)

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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