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ἐδεστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐδεστής ἐδεστοῦ

Structure: ἐδεστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: e)/dw

Sense

  1. an eater

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐδεστής ἐδεστᾱ́ ἐδεσταί
Genitive ἐδεστοῦ ἐδεσταῖν ἐδεστῶν
Dative ἐδεστῇ ἐδεσταῖν ἐδεσταῖς
Accusative ἐδεστήν ἐδεστᾱ́ ἐδεστᾱ́ς
Vocative ἐδεστά ἐδεστᾱ́ ἐδεσταί

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 γὰρ ἀνθρώπων τῶν γαλακτο φάγων τὰ ἔθνεα σῖτον οὐκ ἔδει· ἄριστον δὲ ξὺν γάλακτι, καὶ πολτοὶ, καὶ ἰτρία, καὶ χόνδροι πλυτοὶ, καὶ ὁκόσα ἐδεστὰ ἐκ γάλακτοσ γίγνεται. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 232)

Synonyms

  1. an eater

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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