ἐπινέω
ε-contract Verb;
Transliteration:
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)
