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ἐπιδέχομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιδέχομαι ἐπιδέξομαι

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

Sense

  1. to admit besides or in addition, to allow of, admit of

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

  • ὁ γὰρ χρόνοσ οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται μακρολογεῖν ‐ , ἀγαθὸν μὲν ἁπλῶσ εἰπεῖν οὐδὲν γέγονε τῇ πόλει, ἐν κινδύνοισ δὲ καὶ κακοῖσ καὶ ἀδοξίᾳ πᾶσ’ ἡ Ἑλλάσ, οὐ μόνον ἡ πόλισ, καθέστηκε; (Dinarchus, Speeches, 37:2)
  • καὶ μὴν δυεῖν τὸ μετὰ τοῦ ἑτέρου χρησιμώτερον πῦρ μὲν οὖν οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται τὸ ὑγρὸν οὐδὲ τῇ δι’ αὐτοῦ κοινωνίᾳ χρήσιμον, ὕδωρ δ’ ἐστὶ μετὰ πυρὸσ; (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 6 1:2)
  • ἐπιδέχεται δὲ πλείω κρᾶσιν ὁ παλαιὸσ οἶνοσ διὰ τὸ μᾶλλον θερμὸσ γίνεσθαι παλαιούμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 47 2:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν πρότερ’ ὡσ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ γιγνόμεν’ ἀναγκαῖα προσαγορεύεται, ἃ δέ πωσ τοὐναντίον ἐπιδέχεται ἐνδεχόμενα. (Plutarch, De fato, section 6 9:1)
  • πολὺσ δ’ ἂν εἰή μοι λόγοσ, εἰ περὶ πάντων βουλοίμην λέγειν τῶν σχηματισμῶν ὅσουσ τὰ κῶλα ἐπιδέχεται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 811)

Synonyms

  1. to admit besides or in addition

Derived

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

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