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

  • οὔπω δὲ ἡλίου βολαὶ κατεσπείροντο, καὶ τοῦ βασιλέωσ τοὺσ φίλουσ ἐκδεχομένου, ὁ Ἕρμων παραστὰσ ἐκάλει πρὸσ τὴν ἔξοδον, ὑποδεικνύων τὸ πρόθυμον τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐν ἑτοίμῳ κεῖσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:26)
  • κεκολάφθαι γὰρ ἐπ̓ αὐτῇ ἄνθρωπον μὲν τινα οἱο͂ν τὸν Τάνταλον γράφουσιν ἐν λίμνῃ ἑστῶτα καὶ ἀρυομενον τοῦ ὕδατοσ, ὡσ πίοι δή, τὸ θηρίον δὲ τὴν διψάδα ἐμπεφυκὸσ αὐτῷ περιεσπειρᾶσθαι τῷ ποδί, καί τινασ γυναῖκασ ὑδροφορούσασ ἅμα πολλὰσ καταχεῖν τὸ ὕδωρ αὐτοῦ πλησίον δὲ ᾠὰ κεῖσθαι οἱᾶ τῶν στρουθῶν ἐκείνων, οὓσ ἔφην θηρᾶν τοὺσ Γαράμαντασ· (Lucian, Dipsades 10:1)
  • τοῖσ γὰρ προπεπραγμένοισ ἀεί τι μεῖζον προστιθὲν ἄρδην με τῆσ οἰκείασ ἀποθλίψει χώρασ, ὡσ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἡσυχίαν ἀγαγόντα μηδὲ ἐν γράμμασιν ἀριθμεῖσθαι, ἐν ἴσῳ δὲ κεῖσθαι τοῦ ψόφου. (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 2:3)
  • οὐδὲ ἄλλωσ καλὸν ἐνταῦθά που κεῖσθαι ὑπὸ τῇ ψάμμῳ αὐτήν, ἀλλ̓ ὅπερ ἔφην ἐν τῇ Τρῳάδι ἢ ἐν Χερρονήσῳ τεθάψεται. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, poseidon and nereides, chapter 1 1:4)
  • αὐτό, ἵναπερ κάθηνται τετρακόσιοι στρατιῶται ἐπίλεκτοι, τῇ τε φύσει τοῦ χώρου ὀχυρώτατον εἶναί μοι ἔδοξεν, καὶ ἐν ἐπιτηδειοτάτῳ κεῖσθαι πρὸσ ἀσφάλειαν τῶν ταύτῃ πλεόντων. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 9 4:1)

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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