Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• πιμπλάω ‎(pimpláō) Koine
• πιμπλάνομαι ‎(pimplánomai) Epic, passive

Verb

πίμπλημῐ • ‎(pímplēmi)

1. I fill [+genitive or dative = with something]
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1398
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 57.4
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 368
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1363
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.194
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 411
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.60
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.35
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.374
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.573
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.23
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.93
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.411
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 494.a
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 906
   • Xenarch. 3
   1. I fill full, satisfy, glut
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 146
   2. I fill an office
2. (middle voice) I fill (for) myself
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 522
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.224
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.112
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.603
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 528
3. (passive) I am full of
   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 134
   • 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 646
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.104
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.211
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.499
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.156
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.16
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.705
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.75
   1. I am satisfied, I have enough
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 442.a
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 121
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 520
   2. (of women) I become pregnant
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 576.b.29

Usage notes

In present and imperfect πίμπλημι is the transitive counterpart of πλήθω ‎(plḗthō). The two words share all other tenses.

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References

• πίμπλημι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πίμπλημι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πίμπλημι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «πίμπλημι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «πίμπλημι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• πίμπλημι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter