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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

  • σὺ μὲν μένων νυν κεῖνον ἐνθάδ ἐκδέχου, ἐγὼ δ ἄπειμι, μὴ κατοπτευθῶ παρών, καὶ τὸν σκοπὸν πρὸς ναῦν ἀποστελῶ πάλιν. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode 5:1)
  • ἀλλ ἐν βοὸς κοιλίᾳ καθήμενος ἐκδέχου σου τὴν μάμμην, μέχρις σε χορτάσῃ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 44:1)

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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