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ἐπιπλέω

ε-contract Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπλέω ἐπιπλεύσομαι

Structure: ἐπι (Prefix) + πλέϝ (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to sail upon or over
  2. to sail against, to attack by sea
  3. to sail on board
  4. to float on

Conjugation

Present tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιπλέω ἐπιπλεῖς ἐπιπλεῖ
Dual ἐπιπλεῖτον ἐπιπλεῖτον
Plural ἐπιπλέομεν ἐπιπλεῖτε ἐπιπλέουσιν*
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιπλέω ἐπιπλῇς ἐπιπλῇ
Dual ἐπιπλῆτον ἐπιπλῆτον
Plural ἐπιπλέωμεν ἐπιπλῆτε ἐπιπλέωσιν*
OptativeSingular ἐπιπλέοιμι ἐπιπλέοις ἐπιπλέοι
Dual ἐπιπλέοιτον ἐπιπλεοίτην
Plural ἐπιπλέοιμεν ἐπιπλέοιτε ἐπιπλέοιεν
ImperativeSingular ἐπιπλεῖ ἐπιπλείτω
Dual ἐπιπλεῖτον ἐπιπλείτων
Plural ἐπιπλεῖτε ἐπιπλεόντων, ἐπιπλείτωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιπλεῖν
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιπλεων ἐπιπλεοντος ἐπιπλεουσα ἐπιπλεουσης ἐπιπλεον ἐπιπλεοντος
Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἐπιπλέομαι ἐπιπλεῖ, ἐπιπλῇ ἐπιπλεῖται
Dual ἐπιπλεῖσθον ἐπιπλεῖσθον
Plural ἐπιπλεόμεθα ἐπιπλεῖσθε ἐπιπλέονται
SubjunctiveSingular ἐπιπλέωμαι ἐπιπλῇ ἐπιπλῆται
Dual ἐπιπλῆσθον ἐπιπλῆσθον
Plural ἐπιπλεώμεθα ἐπιπλῆσθε ἐπιπλέωνται
OptativeSingular ἐπιπλεοίμην ἐπιπλέοιο ἐπιπλέοιτο
Dual ἐπιπλέοισθον ἐπιπλεοίσθην
Plural ἐπιπλεοίμεθα ἐπιπλέοισθε ἐπιπλέοιντο
ImperativeSingular ἐπιπλέου ἐπιπλείσθω
Dual ἐπιπλεῖσθον ἐπιπλείσθων
Plural ἐπιπλεῖσθε ἐπιπλείσθων, ἐπιπλείσθωσαν
Infinitive ἐπιπλεῖσθαι
Participle MasculineFeminineNeuter
ἐπιπλεομενος ἐπιπλεομενου ἐπιπλεομενη ἐπιπλεομενης ἐπιπλεομενον ἐπιπλεομενου

Future tense

Imperfect 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

  • ἦν γὰρ ἑτερόφθαλμοσ, καὶ παρήγγελτο τοῖσ στρατιώταισ εὐθὺσ ἐπιπλέουσιν ὑπὸ Λουκούλλου μηδένα κτείνειν ἑτερόφθαλμον, ὅπωσ ἐξονειδισθεὶσ καὶ καθυβρισθεὶσ ἀποθάνοι. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 12 5:2)
  • ἔκειτο δ’ ἡ νῆσοσ κατὰ τὸν ἔσπλουν, καὶ ἀνετέτατο ἰσχυρῶσ, ἵνα ὅ τε ναύαρχοσ τὰ ἐκ πελάγουσ πάντα ἐφορᾷ, καὶ τοῖσ ἐπιπλέουσιν ἀφανὴσ ἡ τῶν ἔνδον ᾖ ὄψισ ἡ ἀκριβήσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 2:7)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ τῷδε Ῥωμαίων ἐπ’ Ἰλλυριοὺσ ναυσὶν ὁμοῦ καὶ πεζῷ στρατευόντων, Ἄγρων μὲν ἐπὶ παιδίῳ σμικρῷ, Πίννῃ ὄνομα, ἀποθνήσκει, τῇ γυναικὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐπιτροπεύειν τῷ παιδὶ παραδούσ, καίπερ οὐκ οὔσῃ μητρὶ τοῦ παιδίου, Δημήτριοσ δ’ ὁ Φάρου ἡγούμενοσ Ἄγρωνι Φ̔άρου τε γὰρ αὐτῆσ ἦρχε, καὶ ἐπὶ τῇδε Κορκύρασ̓ παρέδωκεν ἄμφω Ῥωμαίοισ ἐπιπλέουσιν ἐκ προδοσίασ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 2 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. to sail upon or over

  2. to sail against

  3. to sail on board

  4. to float on

Related

Derived

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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