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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

  • καὶ γὰρ ταῦτα ἁρμόσαι πρὸσ ἄλληλα δεῖ ὥστ’ οἰκεῖα φαίνεσθαι καὶ φίλα καὶ σχηματίσαι ὡσ ἂν ἐνδέχηται κράτιστα προκατασκευάσαι τε, εἴ πού τι δέοι, μειώσει καὶ πλεονασμῷ καὶ εἰ δή τιν’ ἄλλην μετασκευὴν δέχεται τὰ κῶλα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 73)
  • ἐμβιβάσαι δὲ τῶν Ἀθηναίων τοὺσ κρατίστουσ κελεύσαντα πλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν, ὡσ ἂν ἐνδέχηται μάλιστα κρύπτοντασ ἑαυτούσ· (Plutarch, , chapter 9 3:2)
  • καὶ οἷσ ἂν ἐνδέχηται διὰ τύχην δόξαι πρᾶξαι ἢ δι’ ἀνάγκην ἢ διὰ φύσιν ἢ δι’ ἔθοσ, καὶ ὅλωσ ἁμαρτεῖν ἀλλὰ μὴ ἀδικεῖν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 12 14:1)
  • ἔνιαι γὰρ διδόασι τὰ ἑαυτῶν τρέφεσθαι, καὶ φιλοῦσι μὲν εἰδυῖαι, ἀντιφιλεῖσθαι δ’ οὐ ζητοῦσιν, ἐὰν ἀμφότερα μὴ ἐνδέχηται, ἀλλ’ ἱκανὸν αὐταῖσ ἐοίκεν εἶναι ἐὰν ὁρῶσιν εὖ πράττοντασ, καὶ αὐταὶ φιλοῦσιν αὐτοὺσ κἂν ἐκεῖνοι μηδὲν ὧν μητρὶ προσήκει ἀπονέμωσι διὰ τὴν ἄγνοιαν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 79:5)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ φίλῳ μᾶλλον ἢ σπουδαίῳ ὑπηρετητέον, καὶ εὐεργέτῃ ἀνταποδοτέον χάριν μᾶλλον ἢ ἑταίρῳ προετέον, ἐὰν ἄμφω μὴ ἐνδέχηται. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 19:1)

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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