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ἐδωδή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐδωδή

Structure: ἐδωδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from e)/dw

Sense

  1. food, meat, victuals
  2. fodder
  3. a bait

Declension

First 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.

Examples

  • τὰ μὲν οὖν μήτε καθ’ αὑτὰ φαινόμενα μήτ’ ἐν ταῖσ ἀγέλαισ ἐκφερόμενα μᾶλλόν ἐστιν εὔπεπτα, οἱο͂ν γόγγροι καὶ καρχαρίαι καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα, τὰ δὲ ἀγελαῖα γένη τῶν ἰχθύων τούτων τὴν μὲν ἐδωδὴν ἡδεῖαν ἔχει πίονα γάρ ἐστι, βαρεῖαν δὲ καὶ δυσκατέργαστον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 54 1:4)
  • οὕτωσ αἱ περὶ τὴν ἐδωδὴν ἀκρασίαι τὸ φυσικὸν παρελθοῦσαι καὶ ἀναγκαῖον τέλοσ ἐν ὠμότητι καὶ παρανομίᾳ ποικίλλουσι τὴν ὄρεξιν. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 2 2:2)
  • ὅτι Ὅμηροσ ὁρῶν τὴν σωφροσύνην οἰκειοτάτην ἀρετὴν οὖσαν τοῖσ νέοισ καὶ πρώτην, ἔτι δὲ ἁρμόττουσαν καὶ πάντων τῶν καλῶν χορηγὸν οὖσαν, βουλόμενοσ ἐμφῦσαι πάλιν αὐτὴν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ καὶ ἐφεξῆσ ἵνα τὴν σχολὴν καὶ τὸν ζῆλον ἐν τοῖσ καλοῖσ ἔργοισ ἀναλίσκωσι καὶ ὦσιν εὐεργετικοὶ καὶ κοινωνικοὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, εὐτελῆ κατεσκεύασε πᾶσι τὸν βίον καὶ αὐτάρκη, λογιζόμενοσ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ καὶ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ἰσχυροτάτασ γίνεσθαι καὶ πρώτασ ἔτι τε καὶ ἐμφύτουσ τὰσ περὶ ἐδωδὴν καὶ πόσιν, τοὺσ δὲ διαμεμενηκότασ ἐν εὐτελείᾳ εὐτάκτουσ καὶ περὶ τὸν ἄλλον βίον γίνεσθαι ἐγκρατεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 151)
  • εἰ δὲ λέγεισ πεφυκέναι σεαυτὸν ἐπὶ τοιαύτην ἐδωδήν, ὃ βούλει φαγεῖν πρῶτον αὐτὸσ ἀπόκτεινον, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ διὰ σεαυτοῦ, μὴ χρησάμενοσ κοπίδι μηδὲ τυμπάνῳ τινὶ μηδὲ πελέκει· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 5 3:1)
  • "ἃ δ’ εἲσ τ’ ἐδωδὴν πρῶτα καὶ ῥώμησ ἀκμὴν καὶ πρὸσ ὑγίειαν, πάντα ταῦτ’ ἐδαινύμην, κρέασ βόειον ἑφθὸν ἀσόλοικον μέγα, ἀκροκώλιόν τε γεννικόν, ὀπτὰ δέλφακοσ ἁλίπαστα τρία. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52170)

Synonyms

  1. food

  2. fodder

  3. a bait

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

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