ἔξειμι

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) +‎ εἶμι (eîmi, “to go”)

Verb

ἔξειμῐ • (éxeimi)

1. to go out, come out
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 633
   • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.580C
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.139
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.179
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.374
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 909
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.94
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 60.10
   1. to come forth
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 98
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 105
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 334
   2. (absolute) to march out with army
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 633
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.13
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.20
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.95
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 159
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Olympiodorus 55
      • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 610
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.2.13
      • 250 CE – 350 CE, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 8.351D
   3. to come forward on the stage
      • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 946
2. (of time or incidents) to come to an end, expire
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.139
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 767
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, For the Soldier 6
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cynegeticus 8.3

Inflection

Further reading

• “ἔξειμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) +‎ εἰμί (eimí, “to be”)

Verb

ἔξειμῐ • (éxeimi)

1. (very rare) to remain after(?)

See also

• ἔξεστι (éxesti, “it is possible”, impersonal)

References

• “ἔξειμι (B)”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔξειμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἔξειμι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἔξειμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔξειμι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G1826 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • distant idem, page 240.