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ἔκδεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκδεια

Structure: ἐκδει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kdeh/s

Sense

  1. a falling short, being in arrear

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

  • νῦν δὲ κοινωσάμενοι τὸ πρᾶγμα, ὁ μὲν διὰ σοῦ τὴν γεγονυῖαν ἔκδειαν οὐκ ἀποδώσειν ἡμῖν οἰέται, σὺ δ’ ἐκείνου κατηγορῶν τῶν ἡμετέρων κύριοσ γενήσεσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 41:1)

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

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