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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

  • "οὗ ἡμιδεῆ ἅπαντα μερίδασ ποιήσαντεσ τῶν κρεῶν καὶ τῶν ἄρτων ἴσασ διαιροῦνται, ὥσπερ δὲ οἱ μισθοφόροι ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι μισθὸν ἀργύριον λαμβάνουσιν, οὕτωσ οὗτοι τὰ σιτία παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέωσ εἰσ ὑπόλογον λαμβάνουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 26 1:13)

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

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