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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

  • ΤΟΤΕ Δαρεῖοσ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἔθηκε γνώμην καὶ ἐπεσκέψατο ἐν ταῖσ βιβλιοθήκαισ, ὅπου ἡ γάζα κεῖται ἐν Βαβυλῶνι. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 6:1)
  • οὕτωσ κεραμεὺσ καθήμενοσ ἐν ἔργῳ αὐτοῦ καὶ συστρέφων ἐν ποσὶν αὐτοῦ τροχόν, ὃσ ἐν μερίμνῃ κεῖται διὰ παντὸσ ἐπὶ τὸ ἔργον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐναρίθμιοσ πᾶσα ἡ ἐργασία αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 38:29)
  • κεῖται δὲ ἡ λέξισ ἐν τῷ προοιμίῳ τοῦ ἐπιταφίου· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 9 1:7)
  • κεῖται δὲ ἐν τῷ ἐπιταφίῳ ἡ λέξισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 162)
  • κατὰ τὸν Θρᾴκιον Βόσπορον καὶ τὸ στόμα τοῦ Εὐξείνου Πόντου ἐν τοῖσ δεξιοῖσ τῆσ Ἀσίασ μέρεσιν, ἅπερ ἐστὶ τοῦ Βιθυνῶν ἔθνουσ, κεῖται χωρίον λεγόμενον Ιἑρόν, ἐν ᾧ νεώσ ἐστι Διὸσ Οὐρίου οὕτω προσαγορευομένου. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 12 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. to lie

  2. to lie sick or wounded

  3. to lie dead

  4. to have a fall

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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