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κηδεμών?

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: kēdemōn

Principal Part: κηδεμών κηδεμόνος

Structure: κηδεμων (Stem)

Etym.: κηδέω

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

  • καὶ τὸν εὐεργέτην τῆς πόλεως καὶ τὸν κηδεμόνα τῶν ὁμοεθνῶν καὶ ζηλωτὴν τῶν νόμων ἐπίβουλον τῶν πραγμάτων ἐτόλμα λέγειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:2)
  • πάντες μὲν γὰρ πατέρες ἴσως πρὸς τοὺς παῖδας τοιοῦτοι, ὁ δὲ καὶ περιττότερόν τι τῶν ἄλλων εἶχεν, εἰκότως, ὁρῶν μόνον ἐκεῖνον κηδεμόνα καὶ φύλακα τῆς τυραννίδος καὶ μόνον προκινδυνεύοντα τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τὴν ἀσφάλειαν τῇ ἀρχῇ παρεχόμενον. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 18:2)
  • καὶ ἐν οἷς τις ἂν φιλόπολις ἀνὴρ καὶ κηδεμὼν προείλετό τι πρᾶξαι, τοσοῦτον ἐδέησεν ὁ δημαγωγὸς καὶ χρήσιμος αὐτίκα φήσων ὑμῖν γεγενῆσθαι πρᾶξίν τινα προφέρειν, ὥστε καὶ τοὺς πράττοντας ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν τι τῆς αὑτοῦ τύχης ἀνέπλησεν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 37:4)
  • καὶ μήν, ὦ ἄριστοι, ὃν ἐχρῆν μόνον ἐξ ἁπάντων ἐπαινεῖν οἰκεῖόν τε ὑμῖν ὄντα καὶ εὔνουν καὶ ὁμογνώμονα καί, εἰ μὴ φορτικὸν εἰπεῖν, κηδεμόνα τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων εὖ ἴστε ἀποκτενοῦντες, ἢν ἐμὲ ἀποκτείνητε τοσαῦτα ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν πεπονηκότα. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 5:6)
  • χθὲς οὖν Κλέων ὁ κηδεμὼν ἡμῖν ἐφεῖτ ἐν ὡρ´ᾳ ἥκειν ἔχοντας ἡμερῶν ὀργὴν τριῶν πονηρὰν ἐπ αὐτόν, ὡς κολωμένους ὧν ἠδίκησεν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parodos, prelude10)
  • εἴθ ὤφελέν μοι κηδεμὼν ἢ ξυγγενὴς εἶναί τις ὅστις τοιαῦτ ἐνουθέτει. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, strophe2)
  • ὁ πρῶτος εὑρὼν μετὰ λυχνούχου περιπατεῖν τῆς νυκτὸς ἦν τις κηδεμὼν τῶν δακτύλων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 58 1:1)
  • ἐν οἷς ἅπασι καὶ στρατηγὸς ἄριστος ἐγένετο καὶ σύμβουλος συνετώτατος καὶ πάντων κηδεμὼν ἀληθέστατος. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 109:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who is in charge

  2. a protector

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

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