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ὕπειμι?

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration: hypeimi

Principal Part: ὕπειμι

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

Etym.: εἰμί 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

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ὑπῆ, ὑπῆν ὑπῆσθα ὑπῆν
Dual ὑπἦστον ὑπήστην
Plural ὑπἦμεν ὑπἦτε ὑπἦσαν

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

  • Τιγγῖται δὲ μυθολογοῦσιν Ἀνταίου τελευτήσαντος τὴν γυναῖκα Τίγγην Ἡρακλεῖ συνελθεῖν, Σόφακα δ ἐξ αὐτῶν γενόμενον βασιλεῦσαι τῆς χώρας καὶ πόλιν ἐπώνυμον τῆς μητρὸς ἀποδεῖξαι, Σόφακος δὲ παῖδα γενέσθαι Διόδωρον, ᾧ πολλὰ τῶν Λιβυκῶν ἐθνῶν ὑπή: (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 9 4:1)
  • Γινώσκεται μὲν οὖν τὰ τοιαῦτα, ἢν ἕλκος ὑπῇ, τῇ τε ὀδύνῃ καὶ τοῖσι σφυγμοῖσιν‧ καὶ τὸ οἴδημα τὸ ἐν τοῖσιν ἄκροισι, σκληρότερον γίνεται τῶν τοιουτέων, καὶ εἰ τὸν δάκτυλον ἐπαγάγοις, τὸ ἔρευθος ἐξαιρέεται, ἀτὰρ καὶ αὖθις ὑποτρέχει ταχέως. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 27.2)
  • ὅταν ὑπῇ δόγματα ἀλλόκοτα περὶ τῶν ἀπροαιρέτων [π]ὡς ὄντων ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν, πᾶσα ἀνάγκη θεραπεύει ν τοὺς τυράννους. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 16:1)

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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