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

  • "πολλάκισ ἀνασκέπτεσθαι καὶ ὑμᾶσ παρακαλῶ καὶ ἐμαυτόν, ὡσ ἔχοντα πολλὰσ ἀντιλήψεισ καὶ ὑπονοίασ πρὸσ τοὐναντίον, ἃσ ὁ καιρὸσ οὐ παρέχει πάσασ ἐπεξελθεῖν ὥστε καὶ ταῦθ’ ὑπερκείσθω καὶ ἃ Φίλιπποσ διαπορεῖ περὶ ἡλίου καὶ Ἀπόλλωνοσ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 521)
  • ἀλλ’, ὡσ ἔφην, τὰ ἄλλα μὲν ὑπερκείσθω, τὰ δὲ νῦν σκοπῶμεν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 14:4)
  • ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ὑπερκείσθω· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 8:8)

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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