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

  • Δαμοκρίτῳ μὲν ἐγώ, λιγυρὰν ὅκα μοῦσαν ἐνείην ἀκρὶσ ἀπὸ πτερύγων, τὸν βαθὺν ἆγον ὕπνον Δαμόκριτοσ δ’ ἐπ’ ἐμοὶ τὸν ἐοικότα τύμβον, ὁδῖτα, ἐγγύθεν Ὠρωποῦ χεῦεν ἀποφθιμένᾳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1971)

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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