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

  • ἔστων δὲ ἀμφ̓ αὐτὸν ασ ἑκατὸν κούφων λογχοφόρων, ὡσ πᾶσαν ἐπιφοιτῶν τὴν φάλαγγα ὅπου τι ἐνδεὲσ καταμανθάνοι, ἐκεῖνο ἴδῃ καὶ θεραπεύσῃ. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 31:1)
  • καὶ πολύ γε, οἶμαι, πρότερον τοῦ γελᾶν πρὸσ ἑαυτὸν ἐξετάσει πότερον εὐσεβεῖσ αὐτοὺσ χρὴ καλεῖν ἢ τοὐναντίον θεοῖσ ἐχθροὺσ καὶ κακοδαίμονασ, οἵ γε οὕτω ταπεινὸν καὶ ἀγεννὲσ τὸ θεῖον ὑπειλήφασιν ὥστε εἶναι ἀνθρώπων ἐνδεὲσ καὶ κολακευόμενον ἥδεσθαι καὶ ἀγανακτεῖν ἀμελούμενον. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 1:3)
  • ἴσασιν, οὐδὲν τῶνδ’ ἔχουσιν ἐνδεέσ. (Euripides, episode 4:19)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξερώτα, μηδὲν ἐνδεὲσ λίπῃσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 4:10)
  • πᾶν γὰρ ἐδόκει ἐνδεὲσ ὑπὸ θεοῦ γίγνεσθαι δοκοῦν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 9:4)

Synonyms

  1. in need of

  2. lacking

  3. insufficient

Related

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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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