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

  • ὑμεῖσ μὲν οὖν ἄπιτε καὶ τὸν μέλλοντα καιρὸν ἐκδέχεσθε οὐ πολὺν ἐσόμενον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 36 7:1)
  • ἐν ᾧ δ’ ἐκεῖνον ἐκδέχεσθε, πρὸσ ἐμὲ δηλώσατε, περὶ τίνοσ ἥκετε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 60 3:1)
  • ἥ τε γὰρ Αἴγυπτοσ , τηλικοῦτον ἔθνοσ, σῶμα τῆσ πόλεώσ ἐστι, μᾶλλον δὲ προσθήκη, τοῦ τε ποταμοῦ τὸ ἴδιον τῆσ φύσεωσ παρὰ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἅπαντασ λόγου μεῖζον, τό τε θαυμαστὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ὠφέλιμον, τήν τε θάλατταν τὴν καθ’ ἡμᾶσ ἅπασαν ἐκδέχεσθε, κάλλει τε λιμένων καὶ μεγέθει στόλου καὶ τῶν πανταχοῦ γιγνομένων ἀφθονίᾳ καὶ διαθέσει, καὶ τὴν ἔξωθεν ὑπερκειμένην ἔχετε, τήν τε Ἐρυθρὰν καὶ τὴν Ἰνδικήν, ἧσ πρότερον τοὔνομα ἀκοῦσαι χαλεπὸν ἦν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 48:1)
  • ὥστε, ἀδελφοί μου, συνερχόμενοι εἰσ τὸ φαγεῖν ἀλλήλουσ ἐκδέχεσθε. (PROS KORINQIOUS A, chapter 8 115:1)

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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