Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐνδεής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνδεής ἐνδεές

Structure: ἐνδεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)nde/w

Sense

  1. in need of
  2. in need, indigent
  3. lacking, deficient, in, lack, want, defect, deficiency
  4. inferior to, short of, unequal
  5. insufficient, defectively, insufficiently, insufficiently

Examples

  • ψυχὴ ἐν πλησμονῇ οὖσα κηρίοισ ἐμπαίζει, ψυχῇ δὲ ἐνδεεῖ καὶ τὰ πικρὰ γλυκέα φαίνεται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 27:7)
  • Εἰ ποιμένι καὶ ἐνδεεῖ τὴν ὄψιν καλὴ ἔδοξασ, ἐπίφθονοσ οἰεί γεγονέναι; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, doris and galataea, chapter 2 1:2)
  • ἐοίκε δ’ οὖν ἑκάτεροσ ὀρθῶσ ἀξιοῦν, καὶ δεῖν ἑκατέρῳ πλέον νέμειν ἐκ τῆσ φιλίασ, οὐ τοῦ αὐτοῦ δέ, ἀλλὰ τῷ μὲν ὑπερέχοντι τιμῆσ τῷ δ’ ἐνδεεῖ κέρδουσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 155:1)
  • 157 μ τὸ γοῦν φιλοσοφεῖν βέλτιον τοῦ χρηματίζεσθαι, ἀλλ’ οὐχ αἱρετώτερον τῷ ἐνδεεῖ τῶν ἀναγκαίων. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 62)
  • ἐφ̓ ὅτῳ δὴ καὶ σπουδῇ πλείονι ἐποιεῖτο τὸν πλοῦν, ὅπωσ μὴ καθεστηκόσιν αὐτοῖσ, ἀλλὰ ἐν τῷ ἐνδεεῖ τε ἔτι τῆσ παρασκευῆσ καὶ τεταραγμένῳ προσφέρηται. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 4 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. in need of

  2. lacking

  3. insufficient

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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