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

  • Ὁκόσον δέ τι χρὴ τὸ δέρμα τὸ ἀπὸ τῆσ μασχάλησ ἀπολαμβάνειν, τοισίδε χρὴ τεκμαίρεσθαι‧ ἀδένεσ ὕπεισιν ἢ ἐλάσσουσ ἢ μείζουσ πᾶσιν ὑπὸ τῇ μασχάλῃ, πολλαχῆ δὲ καὶ ἄλλῃ τοῦ σώματοσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 11.6)
  • πάλιν δέ με ὕπεισιν ὡσ οὐδ’ αὐτοῦ τούτου παντάπασιν ἀναίτιοι Λακεδαιμόνιοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:13)
  • ταχεῖα δ’ ἀνατροπὴ τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ ὕπεισιν ἅτε καὶ φύσει σφαλεροὺσ ὄντασ πρόσ τε τὴν ἀναξιοπάθειαν, ἀνδραπόδῳ γὰρ ἀλλοτρίῳ ποιήσειν τὸ προστασσόμενον ἠξίουν, τὴν ὁμηρείαν ἀντὶ δουλείασ ὀνομάζοντεσ, καὶ τῆσ ἐπικλήσεωσ τὴν ἀδοξίαν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 59:1)

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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