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ἐδώδιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐδώδιμος ἐδώδιμον

Structure: ἐδωδιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: in Hdt.os, h, on,

Sense

  1. eatable, eatables, provisions

Examples

  • "φύονται δὲ οἱ μύκητεσ γηγενεῖσ καὶ εἰσιν αὐτῶν ἐδώδιμοι ὀλίγοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5274)
  • "καυλοὺσ δὲ τοὺσ καλουμένουσ κάκτουσ, ἐδώδιμοι δ’ εἰσὶ περιλεπόμενοι καὶ μικρὸν ὑπόπικροι, καὶ ἀποθησαυρίζουσιν αὐτοὺσ ἐν ἅλμῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 834)
  • τοῖσ δὲ χειμερινοῖσ καιροῖσ πυροὶ κριθαὶ ὄσπρια καὶ ἄλλοι καρποὶ ἐδώδιμοι, ὧν ἡμεῖσ ἄπειροι. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 26:7)

Synonyms

  1. eatable

Related

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

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