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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

  • οἱο͂ν εἰ κεῖται ὡρ́α ἐπὶ τοῦ τῆσ ἡμέρασ μορίου, εἰ ὁ μέθυσοσ ἐπὶ ἀνδρόσ, εἰ ἡ μήτρα κεῖται ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐδωδίμου βρώματοσ, εἰ σύαγροσ κεῖται τὸ σύνθετον ἐπὶ τοῦ συόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 2 2:2)
  • ἔχει δὲ τὸ ἔριον ὑπὸ τοὺσ πρώτουσ χιτῶνασ, ὥστε ἀνὰ μέσον εἶναι τοῦ ἐδωδίμου τοῦ ἐντὸσ καὶ τοῦ ἔξω. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52193)
  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ ἐγχωρίων τοῖσ πλείστοισ νόμιμόν ἐστιν ὡσ θεὸν σέβεσθαι τὸν κροκόδειλον, τοῖσ δ’ ἀλλοφύλοισ ἀλυσιτελήσ ἐστιν ἡ θήρα παντελῶσ, οὐκ οὔσησ ἐδωδίμου τῆσ σαρκόσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 35 6:2)

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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