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ἐπιδέχομαι?

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration: epidechomai

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 οἱο῀ν 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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