Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κεῖμαι

-μι athematic Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεῖμαι κείσομαι

Structure: κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to lie, lie outstretched, to lie asleep, repose, lie idle, lie still
  2. to lie sick or wounded, lie in misery
  3. to lie dead
  4. to lie neglected, uncared for, unburied
  5. (of wrestlers) to have a fall

Conjugation

Present tense

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

  • ὦ τέκνον τέκνον ταλαίνασ ματρόσ, τίνι μόρῳ θνῄσκεισ, τίνι πότμῳ κεῖσαι; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric1)
  • ἐγγύσ που κεῖσαι κλήρου. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 19)
  • ὦ πάτερ, σὺ δ’ ἐν Αἴ̈δα κεῖσαι, σᾶσ ἀλόχου σφαγαῖσ Αἰγίσθου τ’, Ἀγάμεμνον. (Euripides, choral, strophe 16)
  • οὐκ ἐν ἁβρότητι κεῖσαι πρὸσ τὰ νῦν πεπτωκότα. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees8)
  • ἐν τῷ δὲ κεῖσαι συμφορᾶσ; (Euripides, Helen, episode 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. to lie

  2. to lie sick or wounded

  3. to lie dead

  4. to have a fall

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Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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