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

  • ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἱ φυσικοὶ λέγουσι τὴν ἀστραπὴν τῆσ βροντῆσ ὑστέραν μὲν ἐκπίπτειν ὡσ αἷμα τραύματοσ, προτέραν δὲ φαίνεσθαι, τὸν μὲν ψόφον ἐκδεχομένησ τῆσ ἀκοῆσ τῷ δὲ φωτὶ τῆσ ὄψεωσ ἀπαντώσησ· (Plutarch, Ad principem ineruditum, chapter, section 6 3:5)
  • καὶ μακρᾶσ αὐτὸν ἐκδεχομένησ ἀνύδρου καὶ ἀργαλέασ ὁδοῦ, μυρίουσ ἀσκοὺσ ὕδατοσ ἐμπλησάμενοσ ἤλαυνεν ἐπὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, καὶ κατέλαβε πρὸσ Ἄβαντι ποταμῷ παρατεταγμένουσ ἑξακισμυρίουσ πεζοὺσ καὶ δισχιλίουσ ἱππεῖσ ἐπὶ μυρίοισ, ὡπλισμένουσ δὲ φαύλωσ καὶ δέρμασι θηρίων τοὺσ πολλούσ, ἡγεῖτο δὲ αὐτῶν βασιλέωσ ἀδελφὸσ ὄνομα Κῶσισ. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 35 2:1)
  • εὐθυβολοῦντοσ εἰσ αὐτὴν μήτε, εἰ καὶ φθάσειεν, αὐτῆσ ἐκδεχομένησ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 3:2)

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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