Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὕπειμι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕπειμι

Structure: ὑπ (Prefix) + έ̓ς (Stem) + τον (Ending)

Etym.: ei)mi/ sum

Sense

  1. to be under, under, were, to be under the yoke, to be yoked in
  2. to be or lie underneath
  3. to be laid down, being granted
  4. to remain concealed, lurk
  5. to be left remaining, remain, be at command
  6. to be subjected or subject

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

  • Περὶ οὗ οὖν ὁ λόγοσ, τοῖσιν ἀσάρκοισι μᾶλλον ἐκπίπτει, καὶ θᾶσσον ἐμπίπτει, ἢ τοῖσι σεσαρκωμένοισιν‧ καὶ ἧσσον ἐπιφλεγμαίνει τοῖσιν ὑγροῖσιν καὶ τοῖσιν ἀσάρκοισιν, ἢ τοῖσι σκελιφροῖσι καὶ σεσαρκωμένοισιν, καὶ ἧσσόν γε δέδεται ἐσ τὸν ἔπειτα χρόνον‧ ἀτὰρ καὶ ἡ μύξα πλείων ὑπείη τοῦ μετρίου μὴ ξὺν φλεγμονῇ, καὶ οὕτωσ ἂν ὀλισθηρὸν εἰή‧ μυξωδέστερα γὰρ τοὐπίπαν τὰ ἄρθρα τοῖσιν ἀσάρκοισιν, ἢ τοῖσι σεσαρκωμένοισίν ἐστιν‧ καὶ γὰρ αὗται αἱ σάρκεσ τῶν μὴ ἀπὸ τέχνησ ὀρθῶσ λελιμαγχημένων, αἱ τῶν λεπτῶν, μυξωδέστεραί εἰσιν, ἢ αἱ τῶν παχέων. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 8.11)
  • ἐνταῦθα μέντοι δείσαντεσ μὴ καὶ ἐνέδρα τισ μείζων ὑπείη, ἐπέσχον. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 31:7)

Synonyms

  1. to be under

  2. to be or lie underneath

  3. to be left remaining

  4. to be subjected or subject

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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