Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐπίκεινται γὰρ ἐγγὺσ αὑταιί. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:33)
  • Πολλοῖσ ἀνθρώπων γλώσσῃ θύραι οὐκ ἐπίκεινται ἁρμόδιαι, καί σφιν πόλλ’ ἀλάλητα μέλει· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389227)
  • ἐνιαχοῦ δ’ ἔξεστι μὲν πᾶσιν ἀπογραψαμένοισ ἐκκλησιάζειν καὶ δικάζειν, ἐὰν δὲ ἀπογραψάμενοι μήτ’ ἐκκλησιάζωσι μήτε δικάζωσιν, ἐπίκεινται μεγάλαι ζημίαι τούτοισ, ἵνα διὰ μὲν τὴν ζημίαν φεύγωσι τὸ ἀπογράφεσθαι, διὰ δὲ τὸ μὴ ἀπογράφεσθαι μὴ δικάζωσι μηδ’ ἐκκλησιάζωσιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 199:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ἀριστεῖσ καὶ τὰ ἀριστεῖα ἐπίκεινται. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 12:12)
  • καὶ νῦν ἀπ’ ἐκείνου τῷδε τῷ τέλει ἐλέφαντεσ ἐσ τὰ σημεῖα ἐπίκεινται. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 14 2:4)

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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