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ἥδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἥδομαι

Structure: ή̔δ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to enjoy oneself, take delight, take one's pleasure
  2. he was glad
  3. to delight in or at, he enjoyed
  4. I was pleased to hear
  5. glad, delighted, well pleased

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

Middle/Passive
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ἡδόμην ή̔δου ή̔δετο
Dual ή̔δεσθον ἡδέσθην
Plural ἡδόμεθα ή̔δεσθε ή̔δοντο

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

  • οἶμαι δ’ ἐγὼ ταῦτα γίγνεσθαι οὐχ ὅπωσ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ χοροὺσ κρίνωσιν οἱ πολῖται, οὐδ’ ὅπωσ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ αὐλητὰσ ἐπαινῶσιν, οὐδ’ ὅπωσ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ ποιητὰσ αἱρῶνται, οὐδ’ ἵνα τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ ἥδωνται, ἀλλ’ ἵνα τοῖσ νόμοισ πείθωνται. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 4 17:2)
  • εἰ δὲ πάσαισ μὲν ταῖσ πόλεσι, μᾶλλον δὲ ταῖσ μεγάλαισ, δεῖ μὲν καὶ τῶν πλουσίων, ἵνα καὶ χορηγῶσι καὶ φιλοτιμῶνται ταυτὶ τὰ νενομισμένα δαπανήματα, δεῖ δὲ καὶ κολάκων ἀνδρῶν, ἵνα δημαγωγοῦσιν αὐτοῖσ ἥδωνται· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:1)
  • τρόπον ἀναγκάζομεν ᾄδειν, μέχρι γε τοσούτου πεπαιδεῦσθαι σχεδὸν ἀναγκαῖον, μέχρι τοῦ δυνατὸν εἶναι συνακολουθεῖν ἕκαστον ταῖσ τε βάσεσιν τῶν ῥυθμῶν καὶ ταῖσ χορδαῖσ ταῖσ τῶν μελῶν, ἵνα καθορῶντεσ τάσ τε ἁρμονίασ καὶ τοὺσ ῥυθμούσ, ἐκλέγεσθαί τε τὰ προσήκοντα οἱοῖ́ τ’ ὦσιν ἃ τοῖσ τηλικούτοισ τε καὶ τοιούτοισ ᾄδειν πρέπον, καὶ οὕτωσ ᾄδωσιν, καὶ ᾄδοντεσ αὐτοί τε ἡδονὰσ τὸ παραχρῆμα ἀσινεῖσ ἥδωνται καὶ τοῖσ νεωτέροισ ἡγεμόνεσ ἠθῶν χρηστῶν ἀσπασμοῦ προσήκοντοσ γίγνωνται· (Plato, Laws, book 2 110:1)
  • κατὰ γὰρ πόλιν ἑκάστην, ὅσαι τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ χρῶνται περὶ τὴν δίαιταν, ἦν τούτων ἐπιμελόμενοσ καὶ κατὰ τὸ τῶν ἀφικνουμένων πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἔθοσ πάντ’ αὐτοῖσ παρεσκευάζετο, ἵνα τῷ συνήθει τρόπῳ τῆσ διαίτησ εὐωχούμενοι μᾶλλον ἥδωνται καὶ πρὸσ μηδὲν ὡσ ἀλλοτρίωσ ἔχοντεσ δυσχεραίνωσιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 110:1)

Synonyms

  1. to enjoy oneself

  2. to delight in or at

  3. glad

Related

Derived

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

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