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

  • τότε μὲν οὖν ‐ καὶ γὰρ ἦν ἔτι νύξ ‐ ἱππεῖσ τινασ ἀποστείλαντεσ ἐπὶ κατασκοπὴν οἱ ὕπατοι καὶ φυλακὰσ καταστήσαντεσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ τείχεσι καὶ αὐτοὶ ταξάμενοι τρὸ τῶν πυλῶν σὺν τοῖσ εὐζωνοτάτοισ, ἐξεδέχοντο τὰσ παρὰ τῶν ἱππέων ἀγγελίασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 56 2:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἤτοι Τελαμωνιάδῃ πολλοί τε καὶ ἐσθλοὶ λαοὶ ἕπονθ’ ἕταροι, οἵ οἱ σάκοσ ἐξεδέχοντο ὁππότε μιν κάματόσ τε καὶ ἱδρὼσ γούναθ’ ἵκοιτο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 66:13)
  • τῶν μὲν δὴ πρώτων τὰσ ὁρμὰσ ἐξεδέχοντο Ῥωμαῖοι· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 153:1)
  • τινὲσ δὲ τῶν Μεσσηνίων ἀκούοντέσ τι παλαιὸν αὐτοῖσ εἶναι λόγιον, ὅτι δεῖ Καρχηδονίουσ ὑδροφορῆσαι κατὰ τὴν πόλιν, ἐξεδέχοντο τὸ κατὰ τὴν φήμην πρὸσ τὸ συμφέρον ἑαυτοῖσ, νομίζοντεσ δουλεύσειν ἐν Μεσσήνῃ τοὺσ Καρχηδονίουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 56 5:1)
  • οὗτοι δὲ θεατὴν ἔχοντεσ τῆσ ἰδίασ ἀνδραγαθίασ τὸν βασιλέα τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν φερομένων βελῶν προθύμωσ ἐξεδέχοντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 57 17:1)

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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