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1 ἐπίσταμαι
Grammatical information: v.Meaning: `be assured, know how'(Il.), also `believe' (Heraklit., Hdt.), first intr. as in ἐπιστάμενος μεν ἄκοντι Ο 282.Other forms: Fut. ἐπιστήσομαι (Il.), Aor. ἠπιστήθην (Hdt., att.)Compounds: Also with prefix, e. g. ἐξ-, συν-επίσταμαι.Derivatives: ἐπιστήμων `knowing about, expert' (Od.) with ἐπιστημονικός `of the ἐπιστήμων', usu. `belonging to knowing, to knowledge' referring to ἐπιστήμη (Arist.), ἐπιστημοσύνη (Xenokr.); also ἐπίστημος (Hp.; Chantraine Formation 152); denomin. verbs, both rare and late: ἐπιστημονίζομαι (Al.), ἐπιστημόομαι (Aq.) `become ἐπ.'. - ἐπιστήμη `understanding, knowing, knowledge' (Ion.-Att.; on the history of the meaning Snell Die Ausdrücke für die Begriffe des Wissens 81ff.); the - η- of the derivatives was favored by the adj. in - ήμων, resp. by μνή-μη, φή-μη (Chantraine 173, 148; Schwyzer 522); thus in the verbal adjective. - ἐπιστητός `what can be understood, scienticically accessible' (Pl., Arist.).Etymology: From *ἐπι-hίσταμαι with early loss of the breath and vowel contraction (resp. hyphäresis), Wackernagel KZ 33, 20f. = Kl. Schr. 1, 699f. Through the meaning development (*`stand before something' \> `be confronted with sth., take knowledge of sth.'?; first of practical professions, Bréal MSL 10, 59f., thus OHG firstān, OE forstandan; acc. to Fraenkel REIE 2, 50ff. `be on the track of, discover'; s. alo Snell l. c.) ἐπίσταμαι was also formally separated from ἵσταμαι, what lead already in Homer to a new ἐφ-ίσταμαι `stand at'. - Acc. to others old fomation without reduplication (lit. in Schwyzer 675 n. 2), after Brugmann Grundr.2 2: 3, 160 from an aorist ἐπι-στάμενος, - σταίμην newly formed.Page in Frisk: 1,542-543Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > ἐπίσταμαι
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επίσταμαι — ἐπίσταμαι (AM) 1. γνωρίζω πώς να κάνω κάτι, είμαι ικανός να ενεργήσω («ὅστις ἐπίσταιτο ᾖσι φρεσὶν ἄρτια βάζειν», Ομ. Ιλ.) 2. είμαι βέβαιος, έχω πεποίθηση («ἐπίστασθαι ὡς βουκόλου τοῡ Ἀστυάγεος εἴη παῑς», Ηρόδ.) 3. γνωρίζω καλά («πολλὰ δ’ ἐπίστατο … Dictionary of Greek
stā- : stǝ- — stā : stǝ English meaning: to stand Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘stehen, stellen” Note: reduplicated si stü , extended stüi : stī̆ , stüu : stū̆ and st eu Material: A. O.Ind. tiṣṭhati, Av. hištaiti, ap. 3. sg. Impf. a ištata… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
