ἔξειμι

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ék.seː.mi/ → /ˈek.si.mi/ → /ˈek.si.mi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ék.seː.mi/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈek.si.mi/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈek.si.mi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈek.si.mi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈek.si.mi/

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

   Present: ἔξειμι

number		singular			dual		plural
		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
active	indicative	ἔξειμι	ἔξει	ἔξεισῐ(ν)	ἔξῐτον	ἔξῐτον	ἔξῐμεν	ἔξῐτε	ἐξῐ́ᾱσῐ(ν)
	subjunctive	ἐξῐ́ω	ἐξῐ́ῃς	ἐξῐ́ῃ	ἐξῐ́ητον	ἐξῐ́ητον	ἐξῐ́ωμεν	ἐξῐ́ητε	ἐξῐ́ωσῐ(ν)
	optative	ἐξῐ́οιμῐ	ἐξῐ́οις	ἐξῐ́οι	ἐξῐ́οιτον	ἐξῐοίτην	ἐξῐ́οιμεν	ἐξῐ́οιτε	ἐξῐ́οιεν
	imperative		ἔξῐθῐ	ἐξῐ́τω	ἔξῐτον	ἐξῐ́των		ἔξῐτε	ἐξῐόντων
		active
infinitive		ἐξῐέναι
participle	m	ἐξῐών
	f	ἐξῐοῦσᾰ
	n	ἐξῐόν
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.

   Imperfect: ἐξῇᾰ/ἐξῄειν

number		singular			dual		plural
		first	second	third	second	third	first	second	third
active	indicative	ἐξῇᾰ/ἐξῄειν	ἐξῄεισθᾰ/ἐξῄεις	ἐξῄειν/ἐξῄει	ἐξῇτον	ἐξῄτην	ἐξῇμεν	ἐξῇτε	ἐξῇσᾰν/ἐξῄεσᾰν
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • distant idem, page 240.