ἐπί | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

**ἐπί**: A preposition meaning “on, upon, at” (often of position or occasion), also “toward/against” (of motion or direction), and “over” (of authority or supervision). With different cases it commonly marks place (gen.), basis or contact (dat.), and goal or purpose (acc.).

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Grammatical Analysis

"ἐπί"

Form: ἐπί

Function: preposition governing the genitive, dative, or accusative (case depends on the syntactic construction); also used as a preverbal prefix in compound verbs

Governing cases: ['genitive', 'dative', 'accusative']

Related Forms of ἐπί

15 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

Epi preposition ἐφ' preposition (contracted form) ἐπι preposition ἐφ' οὖ prepositional_phrase ἐφ preposition (enclitic form) ἐπ’ preposition (elided form) epi preposition ἐπὶ preposition επι preposition ἐϕ᾽ preposition ἐπ᾽ preposition επ᾽ preposition ἐπι preposition ἐφ᾽ preposition (enclitic form with elision) ἐπὶ τὰ preposition + definite article

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