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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

  • πενία γὰρ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀλλ’ ἀπληστία τὸ πάθοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ φιλοπλουτία, διὰ κρίσιν φαύλην καὶ ἀλόγιστον ἐνοῦσα· (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 3 8:2)
  • "κακόνοια δ’ ἐνοῦσα μετὰ φθόνου τουτὶ τὸ ἰῶδεσ καὶ ὕπουλον, ὥσπερ αἱ σηπίαι τὸ μέλαν, ἀφίησιν. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 32:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ ἀκρατεῖ καὶ ἐγκρατεῖ ἡ καθ’ αὑτὸν ὁρμὴ ἐνοῦσα ἄγει ἄμφω γὰρ ἔχει· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 138:3)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἄτοπον εἰ μὴ φιλοῦσιν αἱ μητέρεσ τὰ τέκνα φαίνεται δὲ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ θηρίοισ ἐνοῦσα φιλία· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 16:3)
  • τὸν δ’ Ὄσιριν αὖ πάλιν μελάγχρουν γεγονέναι μυθολογοῦσιν, ὅτι πᾶν ὕδωρ καὶ γῆν καὶ ἱμάτια καὶ νέφη μελαίνει μιγνύμενον, καὶ τῶν νέων ὑγρότησ ἐνοῦσα παρέχει τὰσ τρίχασ μελαίνασ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 33 3:1)

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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