δεῖπνον
Second declension Noun; Neuter
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
δεῖπνον
δεῖπνου
Structure:
δειπν
(Stem)
+
ον
(Ending)
Sense
- the principal meal, the noonday meal, the morning meal, the evening meal, the midday or afternoon meal, dinner or supper, the meal
- 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.
- φασὶ δὲ σὲ καὶ λόγουσ ἐπιδείκνυσθαι αὐτοῖσ ἐπὶ δείπνῳ κἀκείνουσ χερσαίων βατράχων δίκην διψῶντασ κεκραγέναι, ἢ μὴ πίνειν, ἢν μὴ διαρραγῶσι βοῶντεσ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 20:2)
- οἶδα δ’ ἐγὼ καὶ ῥήτορα τῶν καρχάρων ἐπὶ τῷ δείπνῳ κελευσθέντα μελετήσαντα μὰ τὸν Δί’ οὐκ ἀπαιδεύτωσ, ἀλλὰ πάνυ τορῶσ καὶ συγκεκροτημένωσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 35:2)
- τῷ δείπνῳ ὅ τε Ἀπόλλων ἐκιθάρισε καὶ ὁ Σιληνὸσ κόρδακα ὠρχήσατο καὶ αἱ Μοῦσαι ἀναστᾶσαι τῆσ τε Ἡσιόδου Θεογονίασ ᾖσαν ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν πρώτην ᾠδὴν τῶν ὕμνων τῶν Πινδάρου. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 27:4)
- εἰ δέ ποτε κἀκείνων τινὰσ ἑστιᾶν διὰ μακροῦ ἐθελήσετε, πλέον τοῦ εὐφραίνοντοσ ἐνεῖναι τὸ ἀνιαρὸν τῷ δείπνῳ, καὶ τὰ πολλὰ ἐφ̓ ὕβρει αὐτῶν γίνεσθαι, οἱο͂ν ἐκεῖνο τὸ μὴ τοῦ αὐτοῦ οἴνου συμπίνειν, Ἡράκλεισ, ὡσ ἀνελεύθερον· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 2:2)
- ’ ἐν δείπνῳ δέ ποτε καλῆσ λοπάδοσ ὄψου παρατεθείσησ ὁ Δημύλοσ οὐκ ἔχων ὅπωσ αὐτὴν μόνοσ καταφάγῃ ἐνέπτυσεν εἰσ αὐτήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 35 1:3)
Synonyms
-
the principal meal
- δόρπον (the evening meal, dinner or supper, a meal)
-
fodder
