# πίμπλημι
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* πιμπλάω (pimpláō) — Koine
* πιμπλέω (pimpléō) — Ionic
* πιμπλάνομαι (pimplánomai) — Epic, passive voice

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognates include Latin pleo, Sanskrit पिपर्ति (piparti, “to fill”) and Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨𐬞𐬁𐬟𐬭𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hampāfrā$^i$ti).
The present tense system includes a reduplicated progressive aspect marker.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pím.plɛː.mi/ → /ˈpim.pli.mi/ → /ˈpim.bli.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pím.plɛː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpim.ple̝.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈpim.pli.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈpim.pli.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈpim.bli.mi/

### Verb

πῐ́μπλημῐ • (pĭ́mplēmĭ)
* to fill [with 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 494a
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 906
** Xenarch. 3
** to fill full, satisfy, glut
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 146
** to fill an office
* (middle voice) to fill (for) oneself
** 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
* (passive voice) to be 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
** to be satisfied, to have enough
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 442a
*** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 121
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 520
** (of women) to become pregnant
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 576b.29

#### Usage notes

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

#### Derived terms

* ἀνᾰπίμπλημῐ (anăpímplēmĭ)
* αποπίμπλημῐ (apopímplēmĭ)
* δῐᾰπίμπλημῐ (dĭăpímplēmĭ)
* ἐκπίμπλημῐ (ekpímplēmĭ)
* ἐμπίμπλημῐ (empímplēmĭ)
* ἐπῐπίμπλημῐ (epĭpímplēmĭ)
* κᾰτᾰπίμπλημῐ (kătăpímplēmĭ)
* πᾰρᾰπίμπλημῐ (părăpímplēmĭ)
* περιπίμπλαμαι (peripímplamai)
* ὑπερπίμπλημῐ (huperpímplēmĭ)
* ὑποπίμπλημῐ (hupopímplēmĭ)

#### Related terms

* ἄπληστος (áplēstos)
* ἄπλητος (áplētos)
* πλέως (pléōs)
* πλῆθoς (plêthos)
* πλήθω (plḗthō)
* πλήμη (plḗmē)
* πλήρης (plḗrēs)
* πλῆσμᾰ (plêsmă)
* πλήσμη (plḗsmē)
* πλήσμιος (plḗsmios)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “πίμπλημι, -αμαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1191-2

### Further reading

* “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