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

  • νυνὶ δ’ ὑμεῖσ αὐτὸν ὁρῶντεσ παραληροῦντ’ οὐκ ἐλεεῖτε, ἐκπιπτουσῶν τῶν ἠλέκτρων καὶ τοῦ τόνου οὐκέτ’ ἐνόντοσ τῶν θ’ ἁρμονιῶν διαχασκουσῶν· (Aristotle, Parabasis, parabasis12)
  • λέγω δὲ τὸ τοιόνδε, οἱο͂ν καύματοσ ἐνόντοσ καὶ δίψουσ ἐπὶ τοὐναντίον ἕλκειν, τὸ μὴ πίνειν, καὶ πείνησ ἐνούσησ ἐπὶ τὸ μὴ ἐσθίειν, καὶ ἄλλα μυρία που ὁρῶμεν ἐναντιουμένην τὴν ψυχὴν τοῖσ κατὰ τὸ σῶμα· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 645:2)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ οἶμαι κερδανεῖν ὀλίγον ὕστερον πιὼν ἄλλο γε ἢ γέλωτα ὀφλήσειν παρ’ ἐμαυτῷ, γλιχόμενοσ τοῦ ζῆν καὶ φειδόμενοσ οὐδενὸσ ἔτι ἐνόντοσ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 938:2)
  • τούτου δ’ ἄν τισ αἰσθανόμενοσ γιγνώσκοι ὅτι ἢ τὸ σῶμα ὑπεραιμοῦν δεῖται θεραπείασ ἢ κόπου ἐνόντοσ δεῖται ἀναπαύσεωσ, ἢ κριθίασισ ἢ ἄλλη τισ ἀρρωστία ὑποδύεται. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 3:2)
  • οὐκ ἄρα ἔνεστιν ἀριθμὸσ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ, ἑνὸσ μὴ ἐνόντοσ ἐν αὐτοῖσ. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 301:8)

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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