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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

  • φίλου γὰρ ἀγαθοῦ εἶναι τὸ ἐπαρκεῖν τοῖσ ἐνδεέσιν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 152:3)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα τῶν περὶ Κρατερὸν στεγνὰ κατασκευασάντων καὶ συναναγκαζόντων τοὺσ πολεμίουσ μένειν τὸν χειμῶνα καὶ διακαρτερεῖν ἐν τόποισ χιονοβολουμένοισ καὶ τροφῆσ ἐνδεέσιν εἰσ τοὺσ ἐσχάτουσ ἦλθον κινδύνουσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 25 1:4)

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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