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

  • τὸ γὰρ ἡνίκ’ ἔμελλεν οὐ πεσοῦσα κείσεσθαι, οὐδ’ ἀνθρώπου τελευτῇ παραπλησίωσ πράξειν, ὥσπερ ἄλλαι τινὲσ ἤδη πρότερον πόλεισ, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ κρειττόνων κρηπίδων ἀναστήσεσθαι, τηνικαῦτα ὑπολισθεῖν, πῶσ οὐκ εὐτυχίασ μέρει προσθείη τισ ἂν εὖ φρονῶν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:7)
  • καὶ τὸν μὲν ἐν τῷ ἑτέρῳ κεῖσθαι, ἐν τῷ ἑτέρῳ δὲ αὐτὸσ κείσεσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 13:1)
  • Τιβέριον δὲ τὸν υἱωνόν, ὡσ τῆσ τε Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῆσ ὁμοῦ διαμάρτοι καὶ τῆσ σωτηρίασ κεχρημένον διὰ τὸ ἐπ’ ἄλλων κρειττόνων οὐκ ἀνεκτὸν εἰσηγησαμένω τὴν συναναστροφὴν κείσεσθαι τὴν σωτηρίαν αὐτῷ τοῦ συγγενοῦσ μὴ ὠφελεῖν δυναμένου, φόβῳ τε καὶ μίσει τοῦ ἐφεστηκότοσ χρησομένου πρὸσ αὐτόν, τὰ μὲν ὡσ προσεδρεύοντα τῇ ἀρχῇ, τὰ δὲ ὡσ ἀντεπιβουλεύειν ὑπέρ τε τῆσ σωτηρίασ καὶ τῆσ ἀντιλήψεωσ τῶν πραγμάτων μὴ ἀφησόμενον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 256:1)

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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