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

  • ὕστερον ἀποδίδωσι, μὴ τοὺσ νέουσ ἐπὶ ταῦτα προσάγοντα μηδ’ ὑποβάλλοντα θορύβοισ, ὄχλων ἀγνωμονούντων ἀήθεισ ὄντασ, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸν ἐκδεχόμενον τὰσ ὑπὲρ τῶν συμφερόντων ἀπεχθείασ· (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 25 5:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἀνελθὼν ἐπὶ τὸ μέγιστον δένδρον ἀπεσκόπουν τὰ ἐπέκεινα ὅπωσ ἔχοι, καὶ ἑώρων ἐπὶ σταδίουσ μὲν πεντήκοντα ἢ ὀλίγῳ πλείουσ τὴν ὕλην οὖσαν, ἔπειτα δὲ αὖθισ ἕτερον ὠκεανὸν ἐκδεχόμενον. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 42:6)
  • τὸ δ’ ἐκδεχόμενον τὴν καμάραν περίστυλον χρυσοῦν ὑπῆρχεν, ἔχον Ιὠνικὰ κιονόκρανα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 26 6:3)
  • Ταῦτα τί κωλύει διαλαβόντα ζῆν κούφωσ καὶ εὐηνίωσ, πάντα τὰ συμβαίνειν δυνάμενα πρᾴωσ ἐκδεχόμενον, τὰ δ’ ἤδη συμβεβηκότα φέροντα; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 12:1)
  • Οὐεσπασιανὸσ δὲ τὰσ δυνάμεισ ἀναλαβὼν ἐκ τῆσ Ἀντιοχείασ, ἣ μητρόπολίσ ἐστι τῆσ Συρίασ, μεγέθουσ τε ἕνεκα καὶ τῆσ ἄλλησ εὐδαιμονίασ τρίτον ἀδηρίτωσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίοισ οἰκουμένησ ἔχουσα τόπον, ἔνθα μετὰ πάσησ τῆσ ἰδίασ ἰσχύοσ ἐκδεχόμενον αὐτοῦ τὴν ἄφιξιν καὶ Ἀγρίππαν τὸν βασιλέα κατειλήφει, ἐπὶ Πτολεμαί̈δοσ ἠπείγετο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 38:1)

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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