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ἕδνον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕδνον ἕδνου

Structure: ἑδν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: prob. from a(dei=n, h(du/s

Sense

a wedding-gift, portion)
wedding-gifts, by those of her own household

Declension

Second declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἕδνον	έ̔δνω	έ̔δνα
Genitive	έ̔δνου	έ̔δνοιν	έ̔δνων
Dative	έ̔δνῳ	έ̔δνοιν	έ̔δνοις
Accusative	ἕδνον	έ̔δνω	έ̔δνα
Vocative	έ̔δνον	έ̔δνω	έ̔δνα

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

ὅπερ οὐδεὶσ πώποτε κατεκρίθη παθεῖν, ἀντὶ θεραπαίνησ, καὶ ταύτησ αἰχμαλώτου, μηδὲν παθούσησ, συνοικίσαι τὴν θυγατέρα ἐπὶ προικὶ μεγάλῃ ἄνευ ἕδνων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:3)
κἀγὼ προσέμεινα οὐκ ἀηδῶσ, ἐνθυμούμενοσ ἅμα τῶν πλουσίων ὁποῖά ἐστι τά τε ἄλλα καὶ τὰ περὶ τοὺσ γάμουσ, προμνηστριῶν τε πέρι καὶ ἐξετάσεων οὐσιῶν τε καὶ γένουσ, προικῶν τε καὶ ἕδνων καὶ ὑποσχέσεων καὶἀπατῶν, ὁμολογιῶν τε καὶ συγγραφῶν, καὶ τελευταῖον πολλάκισ ἐν αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ γάμοισ λοιδοριῶν καὶ ἀπεχθειῶν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 96:1)
Δαναῷ γὰρ τοῦτο ἐπὶ ταῖσ θυγατράσιν εὑρέθη, καὶ ὡσ γυναῖκα οὐδεὶσ ἤθελεν ἐξ αὐτῶν διὰ τὸ μίασμα ἀγαγέσθαι, διέπεμπε δὴ ὁ Δαναὸσ ἕδνων ἄνευ δώσειν ᾗ ἂν ἕκαστοσ κατὰ κάλλοσ ἀρέσκηται· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 3:2)
πεποίηκε δὲ καὶ Ὅμηροσ ἐν Ἰλιάδι, ὡσ Ἰφιδάμασ ὁ Ἀντήνοροσ τὰ πρῶτα τῶν ἕδνων ἑκατὸν βοῦσ τῷ πενθερῷ δοίη. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 6:2)
" Σαοῦλοσ δὲ ἀγγειλάντων αὐτῷ τῶν οἰκετῶν τὰσ τοῦ Δαυίδου ἀποκρίσεισ "οὐ χρημάτων, ἔφη, δεῖσθαί με φράζετε αὐτῷ οὐδὲ ἔδνων, ἀπεμπολᾶν γὰρ ἔστιν οὕτωσ τὴν θυγατέρα μᾶλλον ἢ συνοικίζειν, γαμβροῦ δὲ ἀνδρείαν ἔχοντοσ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἀρετὴν ἅπασαν, ἣν ὁρᾶν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῷ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 255:3)

ἄπροικος (without portion or dowry)
τηθίς (a father's or mother's sister)
ὀνήτωρ ()
νοθεία (birth out of wedlock)
νυμφαγωγός (leader of the bride)
εὔτεκνος (blest with children)
πατράδελφος ()
Κέκροψ (Cecropian)
παιδοφόνος (killing children)
ἐκτίνω (to pay off)
ὁμοπάτριος (by the same father)
φαρμακίς (a sorceress)
παιδοποιός (begetting or bearing children)
ἡμικλήριον (half the inheritance)
ἐνήλικος (of age)
ἀνδροδάμας (man-taming)
ὑποκόρισμα (a coaxing or endearing name)
Ῥωμανός (Synonym of Ῥωμαῖος ‎)
ὕπανδρος (under a man)
ἀνέκδοτος (not given in marriage)
ἀνακῶς (carefully)
γεννητής (a parent)
μητρόθεν (from the mother)
Χολαργεύς (a man of the deme)
γηροβοσκός (feeding or tending in old age)
κλυταιμνήστρα ()
τεκνοποιός (child-bearing)
φίλιννα (darling)
τοκετός (birth)
προπάτωρ (the first founder of a family)

Similar forms

ἕδνον (4)
ἕδνοις (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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