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

  • θάρρει, καταθήσεισ, κἂν ἔνησ ἔλθῃσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 2:19)
  • τοῖσ γα μὰν ὑπωδέλοισ παιδάρια βαλλίζοντ’, ἀγαστὸν χρῆμ’, ἐνῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 63 3:5)
  • εἷσ δ’ αὐτῶν ἐρωτώμενοσ ὅπωσ τὰ πρόσωπα τῶν Ἑρμοκοπιδῶν γνωρίσειε, καὶ ἀποκρινάμενοσ ὅτι πρὸσ τὴν σελήνην, ἐσφάλη τοῦ παντόσ, ἕνησ καὶ νέασ οὔσησ ὅτε ταῦτ’ ἐδρᾶτο· (Plutarch, , chapter 20 5:2)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ δ’ ἐν Ἥβασ γάμῳ βούγλωσσοί τε καὶ κίθαροσ ἐνῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 302)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ Ἥβασ γάμῳ ἦν δ’ ὑαινίδεσ τε βούγλωσσοί τε καὶ κίθαροσ ἐνῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 73 1:6)

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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