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ἡμιδεής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιδεής ἡμιδεές

Structure: ἡμιδεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: de/w

Sense

  1. wanting half, half-full

Examples

  • "Κῦροσ ἔπεμπε βίκουσ οἴνου ἡμιδεεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 294)
  • Κῦροσ γὰρ ἔπεμπε βίκουσ οἴνου ἡμιδεεῖσ πολλάκισ ὁπότε πάνυ ἡδὺν λάβοι, λέγων ὅτι οὔπω δὴ πολλοῦ χρόνου τούτου ἡδίονι οἴνῳ ἐπιτύχοι· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 9 26:1)

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

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