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

  • "ἐκείνοισ γὰρ αὐτὸν ἠξίου Θεαγένησ εἰκάζειν, ὥσπερ οὐκ ἐνὸν καὶ ἐν Ἰνδοῖσ εἶναί τινασ μωροὺσ καὶ κενοδόξουσ ἀνθρώπουσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:75)
  • οὐ τοίνυν νενόμισται ἐσκομίσαι ὕδωρ ἐσ τὸν Φᾶσιν τοὺσ ἐσπλέοντασ, ἀλλ̓ ἐπειδὰν ἐσβάλωσιν ἤδη ἐσ τὸν ῥοῦν, παραγγέλλεται πᾶν ἐκχέαι τὸ ἐνὸν ὕδωρ ἐν ταῖσ ναυσίν· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 8 7:2)
  • οὔκ, ἀλλὰ πάνσεμνα, ὦ Σόλων, κατέλεξασ τὰ ἆθλα καὶ ἄξια τοῖσ τε διαθεῖσιν αὐτὰ φιλοτιμεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τῇ μεγαλοδωρεᾷ καὶ τοῖσ ἀγωνισταῖσ αὐτοῖσ ὑπερεσπουδακέναι περὶ τὴν ἀναίρεσιν τῶν τηλικούτων, ὥστε μήλων ἕνεκα καὶ σελίνων τοσαῦτα προπονεῖν καὶ κινδυνεύειν ἀγχομένουσ πρὸσ ἀλλήλων καὶ κατακλωμένουσ, ὡσ οὐκ ἐνὸν ἀπραγμόνωσ εὐπορῆσαι μήλων ὅτῳ ἐπιθυμία ἢ σελίνῳ ἐστεφανῶσθαι ἢ πίτυϊ μήτε πηλῷ καταχριόμενον τὸ πρόσωπον μήτε λακτιζόμενον εἰσ τὴν γαστέρα ὑπὸ τῶν ἀνταγωνιστῶν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 9:6)
  • καὶ ταῦτα κρανίον κεστρέωσ, εἰ μὴ ἄρα οἱ περὶ ταῦτα δεινοὶ ἴσασιν ἐνόν τι χρήσιμον ἐν κεστρέωσ κρανίῳ, ὅπερ ἐστὶ τῆσ Ἀρχεστράτου λιχνείασ ἐμφανίσαι ἡμῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 28 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἴστροσ ὀλίγοσ μὲν ἀνίσχει ἀπὸ τῶν πηγέων, δέκεται δὲ πολλοὺσ ποταμούσ, ἀλλὰ οὐδὲ πλήθεϊ ἴσουσ τοῖσιν Ἰνδῶν ποταμοῖσιν, οἳ τὸν Ἰνδὸν καὶ τὸν Γάγγεα ἐκδιδοῦσι, πλωτοὺσ δὲ δὴ κάρτα ὀλίγουσ, ὧν τοὺσ μὲν αὐτὸσ ἰδὼν οἶδα, τὸν Ἔνον τε καὶ τὸν Σάον. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 4 15:1)

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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