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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

  • ἴδοισ ἂν οὖν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τεττάρων βεβηκυῖαν ἔχουσάν τι ἐν τοῖν χεροῖν μετέωρον ἐδώδιμον, ἀνθρωπίνωσ πάνυ καὶ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 3:7)
  • ἀλλὰ φέρε ἴδω εἴ τί σοι ἐδώδιμον ἡ πήρα ἔχει. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:4)
  • ὥστε οὐ τοῦτό σοι ἐδώδιμον. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:6)
  • λαβὼν δὲ ὁ Δεινίασ οὐκ ἀφανὴσ εὐθὺσ ἦν τῇ Χαρικλείᾳ καλόσ ποθεν αὖθισ γεγενημένοσ, καὶ αὖθισ ἡ ἅβρα καὶ τὰ γραμματεῖα, καὶ μέμψισ ὅτι μὴ πολλοῦ χρόνου ἀφίκετο, καὶ οἱ κόλακεσ συνέθεον ἐπικαλαμησόμενοι, ὁρῶντεσ ἐδώδιμον ἔτι ὄντα τὸν Δεινίαν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 16:4)
  • "ἡ κόμαροσ ἡ τὸ μιμαίκυλον φέρουσα τὸ ἐδώδιμον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 35 2:3)

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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