Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐκδέχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκδέχομαι ἐκδέξομαι

Structure: ἐκ (Prefix) + δέχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take or receive from
  2. to take up, succeeded
  3. to take up the argument
  4. to wait for, expect
  5. to await
  6. to come next

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • "μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο αἴθριον ἐξεδέχετο τὴν ἐπάνω τῆσ ὑποκειμένησ προστάδοσ τάξιν κατέχον ᾧ κλῖμάξ τε ἑλικτὴ φέρουσα πρὸσ τὸν κρυπτὸν περίπατον παρέκειτο καὶ συμπόσιον ἐννεάκλινον, τῇ διαθέσει τῆσ κατασκευῆσ Αἰγύπτιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3737)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὰσ Σειρῆνασ τὴν ναῦν Χάρυβδισ ἐξεδέχετο καὶ Σκύλλα καὶ πέτραι πλαγκταί, ὑπὲρ ὧν φλὸξ πολλὴ καὶ καπνὸσ ἀναφερόμενοσ ἑωρᾶτο. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 25:3)
  • ὁ δὲ Ιἄσων κατελθὼν τὸ μὲν δέρασ ἔδωκε, περὶ ὧν δὲ ἠδικήθη μετελθεῖν ἐθέλων καιρὸν ἐξεδέχετο. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 27:5)
  • ὁ δὲ Περδίκκασ κατανοήσασ τὴν δυσκολίαν τοῦ ῥείθρου τοὺσ μὲν ἐλέφαντασ ἐκ τῶν εὐωνύμων ἐπέστησεν, ἐκδεχόμενοσ τὴν καταφορὰν τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καταπραϋνοῦντασ τὸ ῥεῖθρον, τοὺσ δ’ ἱππεῖσ ἐκ τοῦ δεξιοῦ μέρουσ ἔταξε, δι’ ὧν ἐξεδέχετο τοὺσ παραφερομένουσ ὑπὸ τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ διέσωζεν εἰσ τὸ πέραν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 35 1:1)
  • καὶ ἡ πόλισ αὐτὸν ἐπιφανῶσ ἐξεδέχετο μετὰ δόξησ ἀοιδίμου τε καὶ παραλόγου διά τε νεότητα καὶ ταχυεργίαν καὶ μέγεθοσ εὐπραξίασ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. to take or receive from

  2. to take up the argument

  3. to wait for

  4. to await

  5. to come next

Derived

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

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