Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑπερκατάκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερκατάκειμαι

Structure: ὑπερ (Prefix) + κατα (Prefix) + κεί (Stem) + μαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to lie or sit above

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

  • εἶπεν ὁ Ἕρμων ὑπερκατακείμενοσ· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 31:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ Περπέννασ φιάλην τινὰ λαβὼν ἀκράτου μεταξὺ πίνων ἀφῆκεν ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν καί ψόφον ἐποίησεν, ὅπερ ἦν αὐτοῖσ σύμβολον, Ἀντώνιοσ ὑπερκατακείμενοσ παίει τῷ ξίφει τὸν Σερτώριον. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 26 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. to lie or sit above

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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