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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

  • ἄλλοι δὲ τῶν Ἰνδῶν πρὸσ ἠῶ οἰκέοντεσ τούτων νομάδεσ εἰσὶ κρεῶν ἐδεσταὶ ὠμῶν, καλέονται δὲ Παδαῖοι, νομαίοισι δὲ τοιοῖσιδε λέγονται χρᾶσθαι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 99 2:1)

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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