Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑπερπέτομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερπέτομαι ὑπερπτήσομαι ὑπερεπτόμην

Structure: ὑπερ (Prefix) + πέτ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to fly over
  2. to fly over or beyond

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

  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ νεκρῶν ἀτάφων σώμασι γῆν ὑπερπετόμενοσ ἐπιβάλλειν ὅταν δὲ πιόμενοσ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 51 2:1)
  • καὶ ἐν τούτῳ θύοντι Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ ἐστεφανωμένῳ τε καὶ κατάρχεσθαι μέλλοντι τοῦ πρώτου ἱερείου κατὰ νόμον τῶν τισ σαρκοφάγων ὀρνίθων ὑπερπετόμενοσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ βωμοῦ λίθον ἐμβάλλει ἐσ τὴν κεφαλήν, ὅντινα τοῖν ποδοῖν ἔφερε. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 26 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. to fly over

  2. to fly over or beyond

Derived

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

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