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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

  • 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 ὡρ́ᾳ 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

Related

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

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