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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

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

  • εἰ γάρ τισ καὶ πένθοσ ἔχων νεοκηδέι θυμῷ ἄζηται κραδίην ἀκαχήμενοσ, αὐτὰρ ἀοιδὸσ Μουσάων θεράπων κλέεα προτέρων ἀνθρώπων ὑμνήσῃ μάκαράσ τε θεούσ, οἳ Ὄλυμπον ἔχουσιν, αἶψ’ ὅ γε δυσφροσυνέων ἐπιλήθεται οὐδέ τι κηδέων μέμνηται· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 10:13)
  • "Αἴθ’ ὄφελον κεῖν’ ἦμαρ, ὅτ’ ἐξειπόντοσ ἄκουσα δειλὴ ἐγὼ Πελίαο κακὴν βασιλῆοσ ἐφετμήν, αὐτίκ’ ἀπὸ ψυχὴν μεθέμεν, κηδέων τε λαθέσθαι, ὄφρ’ αὐτόσ με τεῇσι φίλαισ ταρχύσαο χερσίν, τέκνον ἐμόν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 6:11)
  • τοῦ δ’ οὔτισ γένετ’ ἄλλοσ ἀποτμότεροσ ζωόντων, οὐδὲ τόσων σφετέρῃσιν ἐγεύσατο φροντίσι κηδέων. (Theocritus, Idylls, 7)

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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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