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κήδεος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: kēdeos

Principal Part: κήδεος κήδεον

Structure: κηδε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = κήδειος

Sense

  1. given in charge for burial

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τοὔνεκ ἄρ ἀνθρώποισιν ἐμήσατο κήδεα λυγρά. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 7:5)
  • ἀνθρώποισι δ ἐμήσατο κήδεα λυγρά. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 13:7)
  • μαρμαρυγὰς θηεῖτο ποδῶν, θαύμαζε δὲ θυμῷ, καίπερ ἔχων πολλὰ τὰ περιέλκοντα καὶ δυνάμενος εἰπεῖν κήδεά μοι καὶ μᾶλλον ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἤπερ ἀοιδαί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 11 2:1)
  • "τὰ γάρ τοι σπέρματα εὐθὺς θνητὰ ὄνταταύτης κοινωνεῖ τῆς αἰτίας, ἐξἧσἀφυϊά μὲν ψυχῆς, νόσοι δὲ καὶ κήδεα καὶ μοῖρα θνητῶν ἐκεῖθεν ἡμῖν ἑρ´πει. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 6 9:5)
  • ἐσκέδασ1 ἀνθρώποισι δὲ μήσατο κήδεα λυγρά. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 7 7:1)

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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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