# πάρειμι
## Ancient Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pá.reː.mi/ → /ˈpa.ri.mi/ → /ˈpa.ri.mi/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pá.reː.mi/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpa.ri.mi/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈpa.ri.mi/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈpa.ri.mi/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈpa.ri.mi/

### Etymology 1

From πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) +‎ εἰμί (eimí, “to be”).

#### Verb

πᾰ́ρειμῐ • (pắreimĭ)
* to be by or present
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.485
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.267
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 20.98
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.479
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.475
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.325
** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Parmenides, On Nature 2.1
** to be by or near one
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 5.105
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.640
*** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Third Tetralogy 1.7
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1056
*** 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 131
** to be present in or at
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.497
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 10.217
*** 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 805
*** 349 BCE, Demosthenes, First Olynthiac 2
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 513
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 335B
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 159
** to be present so as to help, stand by
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.472
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.393
*** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 235
*** 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 1159
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Phormio 12
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 159
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 1.1
** to arrive at, to have arrived at
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.9
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.60
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.88
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.1.11
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.8
*** 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Cyclops 95
*** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 5
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.118
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 7.1.35
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 6.6.26
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.4.21
*** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 33D
** to have come from
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.24
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1540
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 101
*** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 862
* (of things) to be by, to be ready or at hand
** in store, at command
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.80
** 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 454
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.559
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.62
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.128
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.140
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, In the Surgery 3
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On Joints 78
** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 391
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 254
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.20
** 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 26
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.20
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Lysis 217D
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1293
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 683C
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 5.6.4
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.113
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.100
** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 186B
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.20
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 149
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 693B
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 215
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.40
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 67C
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.95
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Antidosis 94
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.40
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.88
** 55 CE – 135 CE, Epictetus, Enchiridion 2.2
** 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 1.13.5
** 86 CE – 160 CE, Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander 5.22.5
* (impersonal) it depends on me, is in one's power to do
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 867
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.20
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.70
** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 401
** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 638
** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On his Return 2
** (participle) it being possible or easy, since it is allowed
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.129
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.72
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1098
*** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 564.3
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.19
* (masculine participle, at the end of a verse, like an expletive to round off the sentence)
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1156
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1131
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 300
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 422
** 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, Fragments 657

##### Derived terms

* ἐπιπάρειμι (epipáreimi)
* παριτητέος (paritētéos)

### Etymology 2

From πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) +‎ εἶμι (eîmi, “to go”).

#### Verb

πᾰ́ρειμῐ • (pắreimĭ)
* to be going to go by, beside, past

##### Usage notes

Functions as the future of παρέρχομαι (parérkhomai).

##### Derived terms

* ἐπιπάρειμι (epipáreimi)
* πάρεσις (páresis)

### Further reading

* “πάρειμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “πάρειμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “πάρειμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “πάρειμι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* πάρειμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* πάρειμι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “πάρειμι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3918 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible