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κήδεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήδεος κήδεον

Structure: κηδε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = kh/deios

Sense

  1. given in charge for burial

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative κήδεος κήδεον
Genitive κηδέου κηδέου
Dative κηδέῳ κηδέῳ
Accusative κήδεον κήδεον
Vocative κήδεε κήδεον
DualN/A/V κηδέω κηδέω
G/D κηδέοιν κηδέοιν
PluralNominative κήδεοι κήδεα
Genitive κηδέων κηδέων
Dative κηδέοις κηδέοις
Accusative κηδέους κήδεα
Vocative κήδεοι κήδεα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κήδεος κηδέου κηδεότερος κηδεοτέρου κηδεότατος κηδεοτάτου
Adverb κηδέως κηδεότερον κηδεότατα

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 ἑρ́πει. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 6 9:5)
  • ἐσκέδασ1’ ἀνθρώποισι δὲ μήσατο κήδεα λυγρά. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 7 7:1)

Similar forms

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

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