Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπιπέτομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπέτομαι ἐπιπτήσομαι ἐπεπτάμην

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + πέτ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fly to or towards
  2. to fly over

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Aorist 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

  • ἀλλ’ ἀρετὴ πολύολβοσ ἐπέπτατο πείρατα κόσμου, καὶ ψυχὴ μακάρων ἀμφιπολεῖ θαλάμουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 21 1:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἠε͂ν ὀξυτενήσ, ἀλλ’ εὐρὺσ ἐπέπτατο, κάλλοσ ὑφαίνων στήθεϊ γυμνωθέντι καὶ ἱμερόεντι προσώπῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 65:3)
  • πάντα τισ ἀρήσαιτο φυγεῖν πλόον, ὁππότε καὶ σύ, Θεύγενεσ, ἐν Λιβυκῷ τύμβον ἔθευ πελάγει, ἡνίκα σοι κεκμηὸσ ἐπέπτατο φορτίδι νηὶ οὖλον ἀνηρίθμων κεῖνο νέφοσ γεράνων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5431)
  • ὣσ ἄρα οἱ εἰπόντι ἐπέπτατο δεξιὸσ ὄρνισ, αἰετὸσ ἀργὴν χῆνα φέρων ὀνύχεσσι πέλωρον, ἥμερον ἐξ αὐλῆσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 18:1)
  • ὣσ ἄρα οἱ εἰπόντι ἐπέπτατο δεξιὸσ ὄρνισ, κίρκοσ, Ἀπόλλωνοσ ταχὺσ ἄγγελοσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 66:1)

Synonyms

  1. to fly to or towards

  2. to fly 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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