ἐπινέω?
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration: epineō
Principal Part:
ἐπινέω
ἐπινήσω
Structure:
ἐπι
(Prefix)
+
νέ
(Stem)
+
ω
(Ending)
Sense
- to allot by spinning
Conjugation
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.
- ἕτερον δ ἐστὶν εἶδος παιδιᾶς τῆς ἐν λεκάνῃ, αὕτη δ ὕδατος πληροῦται, ἐπινεῖ δὲ ἐπ αὐτῆς ὀξύβαφα κενά, ἐφ ἃ βάλλοντες τὰς λατάγας ἐκ καρχησίων ἐπειρῶντο καταδύειν ἀνῃρεῖτο δὲ τὰ κοττάβια ὁ πλείω καταδύσας. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 61)
- καὶ ὅστις μὲν ἄριστος κολυμβητὴς, τριῶν καὶ τεττάρων πλέθρων οὐκ ἐπινεῖ περαιτέρω, πλὴν εἰ Σκύλλαν εἴποις: (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 93:7)
- καὶ οὔπω τὸ κυριώτατον εἴρηκα, ἀλλὰ νῦν προσαποκρινοῦμαι, ὅτι, ὦ θαυμάσιε, νεῖν μὲν καὶ σύες καὶ αἱ κύνες αἱ φαυλόταται πάντων ἐπίστανται, καὶ πολύ γε ἱκανώτερον ἀνθρώπου, καὶ τάς γε ἐλάφους φασὶν ἐπινεῖν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον τῆς θαλάττης ἐχομένας ἀλλήλων, πρώτην καὶ τελευταίαν ἀεὶ γιγνομένην τὴν αὐτὴν ἐκ διαδοχῆς. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 93:12)
Synonyms
-
to allot by spinning
Derived
- ἀνανέομαι (to mount up)
- ἀπονέομαι (to go away, depart)
- ἀπονέω (to unload, to throw off a load from)
- διανέομαι (to go through)
- διανέω (to swim across, to swim through)
- εἰσνέομαι (to go into)
- εἰσνέω (to swim into)
- ἐκνέω (to swim out, swim to land, escape by swimming)
- ἐπινέω (to heap up or load with)
- ἐπινέω (to float on the top)
- κατανέω (to heap up)
- νέομαι (to go or come, to go away or back, return)
- νέω (to swim, I was floating)
- νέω (to spin, spun)
- νέω (to heap, pile, heap up)
- περινέω (to pile round, to pile, round)
- προσνέω (to swim to or towards)
- συννέω (to pile or heap together, heap up)
- συννέω (to swim together or with)
