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

  • ἐν πᾶσι δὲ τῷ ἐνέργειαν ποιεῖν εὐδοκιμεῖ, οἱο͂ν ἐν τοῖσδε, αὖτισ ἐπὶ δάπεδόνδε κυλίνδετο λᾶασ ἀναιδήσ, καὶ ἔπτατ’ ὀιστόσ, καὶ ἐπιπτέσθαι μενεαίνων, καὶ ἐν γαίῃ ἵσταντο λιλαιόμενα χροὸσ ἆσαι, καὶ αἰχμὴ δὲ στέρνοιο διέσσυτο μαιμώωσα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 11 3:2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ κυκλοτερὲσ μέγα τόξον ἔτεινε, λίγξε βιόσ, νευρὴ δὲ μέγ’ ἰάχεν, ἆλτο δ’ ὀϊστὸσ ὀξυβελὴσ καθ’ ὅμιλον ἐπιπτέσθαι μενεαίνων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 11:12)

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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