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δεῖπνον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεῖπνον δεῖπνου

Structure: δειπν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: da/ptw

Sense

  1. the principal meal, the noonday meal, the morning meal, the evening meal, the midday or afternoon meal, dinner or supper, the meal
  2. fodder, provender

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μὴν ἐν ἐρημίᾳ τούτων οὐδεὶσ ἂν ὑποσταίη θηρίον ὁμόσε ἰόν, ὁ δὲ παράσιτοσ αὐτά τε ἐπιόντα μένει καὶ δέχεται ῥᾳδίωσ, μεμελετηκὼσ αὐτῶν ἐν τοῖσ δείπνοισ καταφρονεῖν, καὶ οὔτε ἔλαφοσ οὔτε σῦσ αὐτὸν ἐκπλήττει πεφρικώσ, ἀλλὰ κἂν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ὁ σῦσ τὸν ὀδόντα θήγῃ, καὶ ὁ παράσιτοσ ἐπὶ τὸν σῦν ἀντιθήγει. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 51:9)
  • λοιπὸν δὴ καὶ ἀληθέστατον μέν, ἥκιστα δὲ πρὸσ αὐτῶν λεγόμενον, ἡδονῆσ ἕνεκα καὶ τῶν πολλῶν καὶ ἀθρόων ἐλπίδων εἰσπηδᾶν αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὰσ οἰκίασ, καταπλαγέντασ μὲν τὸ πλῆθοσ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀργύρου, εὐδαιμονήσαντασ δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖσ δείπνοισ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ τρυφῇ, ἐλπίσαντασ δὲ ὅσον αὐτίκα χανδὸν οὐδενὸσ ἐπιστομίζοντοσ πίεσθαι τοῦ χρυσίου. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 7:1)
  • δεῖ οὖν ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖσ Περσικοῖσ δείπνοισ κάτω νεύοντα κατακεῖσθαι, δεδιότα μή τισ εὐνοῦχόσ σε ἴδῃ προσβλέψαντα μιᾷ, τῶν παλλακίδων, ἐπεὶ ἄλλοσ γε εὐνοῦχοσ ἐντεταμένον πάλαι τὸ τόξον ἔχων ἃ μὴ θέμισ ὁρῶντα ἕτοιμοσ κολάσαι διαπείρασ τῷ οἰστῷ μεταξὺ πίνοντοσ τὴν γνάθον. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 29:3)
  • ἀρίστουσ ᾤοντο τοιούτουσ ὁρῶντεσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπιτηροῦντεσ ἀντῶν τὴν ἐν τοῖσ δείπνοισ καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ συνουσίᾳ κολακείαν καὶ τὴν πρὸσ τὸ κέρδοσ δουλοπρέπειαν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 40:7)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ δείπνοισ αὐτοῖσ ἀμελήσαντεσ τοῦ ἐμπίπλασθαι καὶ γαστρίζεσθαι καὶ αὐτοί, ἐπειδὰν πλεῖον τοῦ ἱκανοῦ ἐμπίωσιν, ἢ παιδὸσ ὡραίου μεταξὺ ἀναδόντοσ τὸ ἔκπωμα ἔνυξαν τὴν χεῖρα ἢ παλλακῇ ἢ γαμετῇ γυναικὶ ἐπεχείρησαν· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 4 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. the principal meal

  2. fodder

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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