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

  • ἐννόει τὸ λοιπὸν οἱᾶ εἰκὸσ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ γενήσεσθαι, ποίασ μὲν οὐ μελίττασ ἐπιστήσεσθαι ^ ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον, τίνασ δέ τέττιγασ οὐκ ἐπᾴσεσθαι,^ τίνασ δὲ κορώνασ οὐκ ἐπιπτήσεσθαι καθάπερ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἡσιόδου τάφον, καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 21:1)
  • ἠπιστάμην, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, καὶ ταῦτα μὲν καὶ ὅτι ἀπολυθήσομαι αὖθισ οἶδα, καὶ ἤδη γέ τισ ἐκ Θηβῶν ἀφίξεται σὸσ ἀδελφὸσ οὐκ εἰσ μακρὰν κατατοξεύσων ὃν φὴσ ἐπιπτήσεσθαί μοι τὸν ἀετόν. (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 20:6)

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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