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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 ἐπεὶ ἐκ δείπνου ἐγένοντο, ἀπικομένη ἐσ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἐν τοῖσι Κομβάβοσ αὐλίζετο, λίσσετό τε καὶ γούνων ἅπτετο καὶ τὸν ἔρωτα ὡμολόγεεν. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 22:7)
  • τίσ γὰρ ἀπὸ δείπνου ποτὲ ἀπῆλθεν κλαίων, ὥσπερ τινὰσ ἐκ τῶν διδασκάλων ὁρῶμεν, τίσ δ’ ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ἀπιὼν ὤφθη σκυθρωπόσ, ὥσπερ οἱ εἰσ διδασκαλεῖα φοιτῶντεσ; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 13:6)
  • φησίν, κατὰ τιμὴν ἀξιωθέντα ὀψὲ τοῦ παρὰ τῷ βασιλεῖ δείπνου. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 45:8)
  • ἄρξομαι δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ πρώτου δείπνου, ἢν ,δοκῇ, ὅ σε εἰκὸσ δειπνήσειν τὰ προτέλεια τῆσ μελλούσησ συνουσίασ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 13:7)
  • ὑποβλέπειν οὖν εἰσ τὸν πλησίον δεήσει κἀκεῖνον ζηλοῦν καὶ μανθάνειν τοῦ δείπνου τὴν ἀκολουθίαν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 15:6)

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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