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ἐκδέχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: ekdechomai

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

  • "πολλοὶ δ ἕκαστον ἀγῶνες ἐκδέχονται δι ἡμέρας, γυμνάσια δ ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν ἅπαντας: (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 18:24)
  • παρὰ δὲ τούτων ἐκδέχονται τῶν ἀνδρῶν τὴν ὕπατον ἀρχὴν Πόπλιος Οὐαλέριος ὁ κληθεὶς Ποπλικόλας τὸ τέταρτον ἄρχειν αἱρεθεὶς καὶ Τῖτος Λουκρήτιος τὸ δεύτερον τῷ Οὐαλερίῳ συνάρχων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 40 1:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ τὸν σύμβουλον τὸν ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸν ἄξιον προεστάναι πόλεώς φημι δεῖν πρὸς ἅπαντα μὲν ἁπλῶς παρεσκευάσθαι τὰ δοκοῦντα δυσχερῆ, μάλιστα δὲ πρὸς τὰς λοιδορίας καὶ τὴν τοῦ πλήθους ὀργήν, καὶ ταῖς ἄκραις ὅμοιον ταῖς ποιούσαις τοὺς λιμένας, αἵτινες ἅπασαν ἐκδέχονται τὴν βίαν τῆς θαλάττης, τὸ δὲ ἐντὸς ἀκίνητον καὶ γαληνὸν φυλάττουσι, κἀκεῖνον ἐκκεῖσθαι τῷ δήμῳ, κἂν ὀργισθῆναί ποτε θέλῃ κἂν κακῶς εἰπεῖν κἂν ὁτιοῦν ποιῆσαι, πάσχειν δὲ μηδὲν ὑπὸ τῶν τοιούτων θορύβων, μήτε ἂν ἐπαινῆται, διὰ τοῦτο ἐπαίρεσθαι, μήτε ἂν ὑβρίζεσθαι δοκῇ, ταπεινοῦσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 43:1)
  • ἐπιόντα γὰρ αὐτὸν οἱ Ιὠταπατηνοὶ προαισθόμενοι πρὸ τῆς πόλεως ἐκδέχονται, καὶ τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις συρραγέντες ἀδοκήτοις πολλοὶ καὶ πρὸς μάχην ἕτοιμοι πρόθυμοί τε ὡς ἂν ὑπὲρ κινδυνευούσης πατρίδος καὶ γυναικῶν καὶ τέκνων, τρέπονται ταχέως. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 141:2)
  • παρὰ δὲ τούτων τὸν ὀροβίτην λίθον αἱ γυναῖκες καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐκδέχονται, καὶ μύλων ἑξῆς πλειόνων ὄντων ἐπὶ τούτους ἐπιβάλλουσι, καὶ παραστάντες ἀνὰ τρεῖς ἢ δύο πρὸς τὴν κώπην ἀλήθουσιν, ἑώς ἂν εἰς σεμιδάλεως τρόπον τὸ δοθὲν μέτρον κατεργάσωνται. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 13 2:1)

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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