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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δεῖπνον δείπνω δεῖπνα
Genitive δείπνου δείπνοιν δείπνων
Dative δείπνῳ δείπνοιν δείπνοις
Accusative δεῖπνον δείπνω δεῖπνα
Vocative δεῖπνον δείπνω δεῖπνα

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 ἐγένετο Ἀμελσὰδ ἀναιρούμενοσ τὸ δεῖπνον αὐτῶν καὶ τὸν οἶνον τοῦ πόματοσ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐδίδου αὐτοῖσ σπέρματα. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 1:16)
  • ΒΑΛΤΑΣΑΡ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἐποίησε δεῖπνον μέγα τοῖσ μεγιστᾶσιν αὐτοῦ χιλίοισ, καὶ κατέναντι τῶν χιλίων ὁ οἶνοσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 5:1)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοι πάντεσ ἐπὶ τὸ δεῖπνον ἦσαν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 3:9)
  • ἢν δὲ οἰκοσιτῶσιν, νέκταρ καὶ ἀμβροσία τὸ δεῖπνον. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 9:4)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ τῶν ἀντιτέχνων τισ Ἀντίφιλοσ τοὔνομα ὑπὸ φθόνου τῆσ παρὰ βασιλεῖ τιμῆσ καὶ ὑπὸ τῆσ κατὰ τὴν τέχνην ζηλοτυπίασ κατεῖπεν αὐτὸν πρὸσ τὸν ’ Πτολεμαῖον ὡσ εἰή κεκοινωνηκὼσ τῶν ὅλων καὶ ὡσ θεάσαιτό τισ αὐτὸν ἐν Φοινίκῃ συνεστιώμενον Θεοδότᾳ καὶ παρ’ ὅλον τὸ δεῖπνον πρὸσ τὸ οὖσ αὐτῷ κοινολογούμενον, καὶ τέλοσ ἀπέφηνε τὴν Τύρου ἀπόστασιν καὶ Πηλουσίου κατάληψιν ἐκ τῆσ Ἀπελλοῦ συμβουλῆσ γεγονέναι. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 2:4)

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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