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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)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἤδη σφᾶσ κατὰ τὴν Ζάκυνθον εἶναι ἀπὸ ψιλῆσ τῆσ κεραίασ πλέοντασ, ἔτι καὶ σπείρασ τινὰσ ἐπισυρομένουσ, ὡσ τὸ ῥόθιον ἐπιδέχεσθαι τῆσ ὁρμῆσ, περὶ μέσασ νύκτασ οἱο͂ν ἐν τοσούτῳ σάλῳ ναυτιάσαντα τὸν Δάμωνα ἐμεῖν ἐκκεκυφότα ἐσ τὴν θάλασσαν εἶτα, οἶμαι, τῆσ νεὼσ βιαιότερον ἐσ ὃ ἐκεκύφει μέροσ ἐπικλιθείσησ καὶ τοῦ κύματοσ συναπώσαντοσ, ἐκπεσεῖν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐσ τὸ πέλαγοσ, οὐδὲ γυμνὸν τὸν ἄθλιον,^ ὡσ ἂν καὶ ῥᾷον δύνασθαι νεῖν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 19:8)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν πρότερ’ ὡσ ἐξ ἀνάγκησ γιγνόμεν’ ἀναγκαῖα προσαγορεύεται, ἃ δέ πωσ τοὐναντίον ἐπιδέχεται ἐνδεχόμενα. (Plutarch, De fato, section 6 9:1)

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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