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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

  • αἱ δὲ σφίγγεσ γίνονται μὲν περί τε τὴν Τρωγλοδυτικὴν καὶ τὴν Αἰθιοπίαν, ταῖσ δὲ μορφαῖσ ὑπάρχουσιν οὐκ ἀνόμοιοι ταῖσ γραφομέναισ, μόνον δὲ ταῖσ δασύτησι διαλλάττουσι, τὰσ δὲ ψυχὰσ ἡμέρουσ ἔχουσαι καὶ πανούργουσ ἐπὶ πλέον καὶ διδασκαλίαν μεθοδικὴν ἐπιδέχονται. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 35 4:1)
  • ὀλίγοι μὲν γὰρ καιροὶ πάντασ ἐπιδέχονται διαθέσθαι τοὺσ ἐνόντασ λόγουσ, οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι βραχεῖσ [καί] τινασ τῶν ὑπόντων, καὶ τούτων τινὰσ μὲν οἱ νῦν, ἄλλουσ δ’ οἱ προγεγονότεσ, καὶ τινὰσ μὲν Αἰτωλοὶ προσίενται, τινὰσ δὲ Πελοποννήσιοι, τινὰσ δ’ Ἀθηναῖοι. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 25i 4:1)
  • Ῥωμαῖοι δὲ τοὺσ μὲν θυρεοὺσ τοῖσ ὀχεῦσι τοῖσ σκυτίνοισ ἐκ τῶν ὤμων ἐξηρτηκότεσ, ταῖσ δὲ χερσὶν αὐτοὺσ τοὺσ γαίσουσ φέροντεσ, ἐπιδέχονται τὴν παρακομιδὴν τοῦ χάρακοσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 18, chapter 18 4:1)

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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