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ἐπίκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκειμαι

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to be laid upon
  2. to be put to or closed
  3. to be placed in or on
  4. lying off, off the coast
  5. to press upon, be urgent, to press upon
  6. to hang over, imposed
  7. having their, covered, under an assumed

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

  • Λύσω σε, φήσ, ὃν ἐχρῆν βαρυτέρασ πέδασ ἔχοντα καὶ τὸν Καύκασον ὅλον ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆσ ἐπικείμενον ὑπὸ ἑκκαίδεκα γυπῶν μὴ μόνον κείρεσθαι τὸ ἧπαρ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ἐξορύττεσθαι, ἀνθ̓ ὧν τοιαῦθ̓ ἡμῖν ζῷα τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἔπλασασ καὶ τὸ πῦρ ἔκλεψασ καὶ γυναῖκασ ἐδημιούργησασ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:3)
  • τὸ δὲ μέγιστον, ὅτι ἐν Ἁλικαρνασσῷ μνῆμα παμμέγεθεσ ἔχω ἐπικείμενον, ἡλίκον οὐκ ἄλλοσ νεκρόσ, ἀλλ̓ οὐδὲ οὕτωσ ἐσ κάλλοσ ἐξησκημένον, ἵππων καὶ ἀνδρῶν ἐσ τὸ ἀκριβέστατον εἰκασμένων λίθου τοῦ καλλίστου, οἱο͂ν οὐδὲ νεὼν εὑρ́οι τισ ἂν ῥᾳδίωσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 1:4)
  • Ἐνοχλουμένων δὲ τῶν ἀνθρώπων μάλιστα περὶ τὴν τοῦ ποτοῦ χρείαν καὶ γὰρ ὀλίγον καὶ πονηρὸν ἐπίδυε καὶ συνελείβετο παρ’ αὐτὴν τὴν θάλατταν, ὁρῶν ὁ Αἰμίλιοσ μέγα καὶ κατηρεφὲσ δένδρεσιν ὄροσ τὸν Ὄλυμπον ἐπικείμενον, καὶ τεκμαιρόμενοσ τῇ χλωρότητι τῆσ ὕλησ ναμάτων ἔχειν ἀρχὰσ διὰ βάθουσ ὑποφερομένων, ἀναπνοὰσ αὐτοῖσ καὶ φρέατα πολλὰ παρὰ τὴν ὑπώρειαν ὤρυττε. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 14 1:1)
  • τούτοισ ἐπέβαλλε τὸ ἁρ́μα τοῦ Περσέωσ καὶ τὰ ὅπλα καὶ τὸ διάδημα τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ἐπικείμενον. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 33 3:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ κατὰ μέροσ συνθέσει τοῦ κώλου τοῖσ μὲν ἐπί τε συνδέσμοισ ἀφ’ ὧν ἄρχεται τὸ κῶλον, εἴτε ἄρα πρόθεσιν αὐτῶν δεῖ τὸ ἡγούμενον καλεῖν, τὸ προσηγορικὸν ἐπικείμενον μόριον τὸ κλυτὰν ἀντίτυπον πεποίηκε καὶ τραχεῖαν τὴν σύνθεσιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2240)

Synonyms

  1. to be laid upon

  2. to be put to or closed

  3. to be placed in or on

  4. to press upon

  5. to hang over

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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