Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑπέρκειμαι

-μι athematic Verb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέρκειμαι

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

Sense

  1. to lie or be situate above
  2. to be postponed

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

  • οὐδεμίαν δὲ παρεχομένη ποικιλίαν κατὰ τὴν ἰδέαν ἐρήμῳ γῇ περιέχεται, τῆσ ὑπερκειμένησ ἐρήμου δυσέξιτον ἐχούσησ τὸ πέρασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 50 1:4)
  • ἀπέχει δὲ Λαμίασ ὁ Σπερχειὸσ περὶ τριάκοντα σταδίουσ ὑπερκειμένησ πεδίου τινὸσ καθήκοντοσ ἐπὶ τὸν Μαλιακὸν κόλπον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 12:5)
  • καὶ ἔστι τῶν μὲν Εὐρωπαίων Βοσπορανῶν μητρόπολισ τὸ Παντικάπαιον, τῶν δ’ Ἀσιανῶν τὸ Φαναγόρειον καλεῖται γὰρ καὶ οὕτωσ ἡ πόλισ, καὶ δοκεῖ τῶν μὲν ἐκ τῆσ Μαιώτιδοσ καὶ τῆσ ὑπερκειμένησ βαρβάρου κατακομιζομένων ἐμπόριον εἶναι τὰ Φαναγόρεια, τῶν δ’ ἐκ τῆσ θαλάττησ ἀναφερομένων ἐκεῖσε τὸ Παντικάπαιον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 14:5)
  • περὶ μὲν οὖν τῆσ Κολχίδοσ εἴρηται καὶ τῆσ ὑπερκειμένησ παραλίασ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 34:5)
  • αὕτη δὲ μέχρι τῶν Ἀργινουσσῶν διήκει καὶ τῆσ ὑπερκειμένησ ἄκρασ, ἣν Αἶγά τινεσ ὀνομάζουσιν ὁμωνύμωσ τῷ ζῴῳ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 115:3)

Synonyms

  1. to lie or be situate 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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