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κηδεμών

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηδεμών κηδεμόνος

Structure: κηδεμων (Stem)

Etym.: khde/w

Sense

  1. one who is in charge
  2. a protector, guardian

Declension

Third declension

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

  • θεῖα γάρ, εἴπερ κἀγώ τι φρονῶ, καὶ τὰ παθήματα κεῖνα πρὸσ αὐτὸν τῆσ ὠμόφρονοσ Χρύσησ ἐπέβη, καὶ νῦν ἃ πονεῖ δίχα κηδεμόνων, οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὡσ οὐ θεῶν του μελέτῃ τοῦ μὴ πρότερον τόνδ’ ἐπὶ Τροίᾳ τεῖναι τὰ θεῶν ἀμάχητα βέλη, πρὶν ὅδ’ ἐξήκοι χρόνοσ, ᾧ λέγεται χρῆναί σφ’ ὑπὸ τῶνδε δαμῆναι. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, anapests2)
  • μηδ’ ἔνθεν ἑκαστέρω ὁρμηθεῖσαν χήτει κηδεμόνων ὀνοτὴν καὶ ἀεικέα θείησ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 2:21)
  • ἄλλοσ μὰν οὐκ ἄν τισ ἐυφρήναι με παραστὰσ κηδεμόνων· (Theocritus, Idylls, 24)
  • Θεύδοτε, κηδεμόνων μέγα δάκρυον, οἵ σε θανόντα κώκυσαν, μέλεον πυρσὸν ἀναψάμενοι, αἰνόλινε, τρισάωρε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5271)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐνὶ γαίῃ πατρίδι καὶ τύμβου καὶ κτερέων ἔλαχεν κηδεμόνων ἐν χερσίν, ἐπεὶ τρηχεῖα θάλασσα νεκρὸν πεπταμένουσ θῆκεν ἐπ’ αἰγιαλούσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6655)

Synonyms

  1. one who is in charge

  2. a protector

Related

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

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