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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

  • ὁ δὲ Ἀθηναῖοσ Μνησίθεοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἐδεστῶν τῶν μειζόνων φησὶν ἰχθύων γένοσ ὑφ’ ὧν μὲν καλεῖσθαι τμητόν, ὑπ’ ἄλλων δὲ πελάγιον, οἱο͂ν χρυσόφρυσ καὶ γλαύκουσ καὶ φάγρουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 541)
  • Μνησίθεοσ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἰατρὸσ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἐδεστῶν ὀστρακίδασ καλεῖ τῶν κώνων τοὺσ πυρῆνασ, ἔτι δὲ κώνουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 492)
  • τρυφῇ γέ τοι ἄλλων ἐδεστῶν μηχανὰσ θηρεύομεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 48 1:5)
  • Μνησίθεοσ δ’ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἐδεστῶν φησιν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 19 1:6)
  • ταῦτα Μνησίθεοσ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἐδεστῶν μῆλα Δελφικὰ καλεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 202)

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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