Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

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

  • ἦν δὲ ἡ Οὐιεντανῶν πόλισ οὐθὲν ὑποδεεστέρα τῆσ Ῥώμησ ἐνοικεῖσθαι γῆν τε πολλὴν καὶ πολύκαρπον ἔχουσα, τὴν μὲν ὀρεινήν, τὴν δὲ πεδιάδα, καὶ τὸν ὑπερκείμενον ἀέρα καθαρώτατον καὶ πρὸσ ὑγιείαν ἀνθρώποισ ἄριστον, οὔτε ἕλουσ πολησίον ὄντοσ, ὅθεν ἕλκονται βαρεῖσ ἀτμοὶ καὶ δυσώδεισ, οὔτε ποταμοῦ τινοσ ψυχρὰσ ἑώθεν ἀνιέντοσ αὔρασ, ὑδάτων τε οὐ σπανίων ὄντων οὐδ’ ἐπακτῶν, ἀλλ’ αὐθιγενῶν καὶ πλουσίων καὶ πίνεσθαι κρατίστων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 15 2:1)
  • ἀποδειξάντων δ’ αὐτῶν τὸν ὑπερκείμενον τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ λόφον, ὃσ τότε μὲν ἐκαλεῖτο Ταρπήιοσ, νῦν δὲ Καπιτωλῖνοσ, αὖθισ ἐκέλευσεν αὐτοὺσ διαμαντευσαμένουσ εἰπεῖν ἐν ὁποίῳ τοῦ λόφου χωρίῳ θέσθαι δεήσει τοὺσ θεμελίουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 69 5:1)
  • καὶ ταῦτ’ εἰπὼν ἐπέταξεν ἄγειν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸν ὑπερκείμενον τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ λόφον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 35 5:1)
  • τοῦτο τὸ τέλοσ τῆσ δίκησ λαβούσησ ἀγαγόντεσ οἱ ταμίαι τὸν ἄνδρα ἐπὶ τὸν ὑπερκείμενον τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ κρημνόν, ἁπάντων ὁρώντων ἔρριψαν κατὰ τῆσ πέτρασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 78 7:3)
  • ἔπειθ’ ὅτι τὴν οἰκίαν ἐν ἐπιφθόνῳ τόπῳ κατεσκευάσατο λόφον ὑπερκείμενον τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ ὑψηλὸν ἐπιεικῶσ καὶ περίτομον, ὃν καλοῦσι Ῥωμαῖοι Οὐελίαν, ἐκλεξάμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 19 1:3)

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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