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ἐνδέχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνδέχομαι ἐνδέξομαι ἐνδέδεγμαι

Structure: ἐν (Prefix) + δέχ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to take upon oneself
  2. to accept, admit, approve of
  3. to give ear to, believe, to give ear, attend
  4. to admit, allow of, does, admit
  5. to be possible, possible, all possible means, it admits, it is possible that

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

  • ἐνδέχεσθαι λόγουσ περὶ σπονδῶν καὶ εἰρήνησ οὐκ ἀνασχετὸν ἐποιήσατο, καίπερ ἀμφοτέρασ ἀποβεβληκὼσ τὰσ ὄψεισ, ἀλλ’ ἧκε δι’ ἀγορᾶσ φερόμενοσ πρὸσ τὸ βουλευτήριον εἰσελθὼν δὲ καὶ καταστὰσ εἰσ μέσον ἔφη πρότερον μὲν ἄχθεσθαι τῷ τῶν ὀμμάτων στέρεσθαι, νῦν δ’ ἂν εὔξασθαι μηδ’ ἀκούειν οὕτωσ αἰσχρὰ καὶ ἀγεννῆ βουλευομένουσ καὶ πράττοντασ ἐκείνουσ. (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 21 5:1)
  • οὕτω γάρ ἐστι δεινὸν τὸ γεγενημένον ἀδίκημα καὶ τηλικοῦτον ἔχει τὸ μέγεθοσ, ὥστε μήτε κατηγορίαν μήτε τιμωρίαν ἐνδέχεσθαι εὑρεῖν ἀξίαν μήτ’ ἐν τοῖσ νόμοισ ὡρίσθαι τιμωρίαν ἀξίαν τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 12:1)
  • ἐκ τούτου κατάγειον μὲν οἰκοδομῆσαι μελετητήριον, ὃ δὴ διεσῴζετο καὶ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ, ἐνταῦθα δὲ πάντωσ μὲν ἑκάστησ ἡμέρασ κατιόντα πλάττειν τὴν ὑπόκρισιν καὶ διαπονεῖν τὴν φωνήν, πολλάκισ δὲ καὶ μῆνασ ἑξῆσ δύο καὶ τρεῖσ συνάπτειν, ξυρούμενον τῆσ κεφαλῆσ θάτερον μέροσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδὲ βουλομένῳ πάνυ προελθεῖν ἐνδέχεσθαι δι’ αἰσχύνην. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 7 3:1)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν ποιόν τινα εἶναι καὶ τὰσ κατ’ αὐτὸν πράξεισ, κοινότερον ἂν εἰή τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ θειότερον, κοινότερον μὲν τῷ πλείοσιν ἐνδέχεσθαι μετασχεῖν, θειότερον δὲ τῷ κεῖσθαι τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν τοῖσ αὑτοὺσ παρασκευάζουσι ποιούσ τινασ καὶ τὰσ πράξεισ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 1 28:1)
  • ἔστι δὴ τῶν δυνατῶν καὶ εἶναι καὶ μὴ τὰ μὲν τοιαῦτα ὥστε ἐνδέχεσθαι βουλεύσασθαι περὶ αὐτῶν· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 173:2)

Synonyms

  1. to take upon oneself

  2. to accept

  3. to give ear to

  4. to admit

  5. to be possible

Derived

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

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