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κηδεστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηδεστής κηδεστοῦ

Structure: κηδεστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kh=dos

Sense

  1. a connexion by marriage, a son-in-law, father-in-law, a step-father, a brother-in-law

Declension

First 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 πρὸσ ἄρχοντασ ἐν πόλεσι χρηστοὺσ καὶ γείτονασ καὶ κηδεστάσ· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 8 5:1)
  • τὸ δ’ αὐτὸ συμβαίνει καὶ πρὸσ ἄρχοντασ ἐν πόλεσι χρηστοὺσ καὶ γείτονασ καὶ κηδεστάσ· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 8 2:2)
  • καὶ πότου δαπάνησ ἐκκαθῆραι λογισμὸν οὐκ ἀμελήσ, οὐδὲ ῥᾴθυμοσ ἐν δείπνων παρασκευαῖσ, θεραπευτικὸσ δὲ παλλακίδων, πρὸσ δὲ κηδεστὰσ ἀποθρασύνεσθαι κελευσθεὶσ καὶ συνεκβαλεῖν γαμετὴν ἄτεγκτοσ καὶ ἀδυσώπητοσ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 23 11:1)
  • οὔτε γὰρ τῷ καλῶσ ἀγρὸν φυτευσαμένῳ δῆλον ὅστισ καρπώσεται, οὔτε τῷ καλῶσ οἰκίαν οἰκοδομησαμένῳ δῆλον ὅστισ ἐνοικήσει, οὔτε τῷ στρατηγικῷ δῆλον εἰ συμφέρει στρατηγεῖν, οὔτε τῷ πολιτικῷ δῆλον εἰ συμφέρει τῆσ πόλεωσ προστατεῖν, οὔτε τῷ καλὴν γήμαντι, ἵν’ εὐφραίνηται, δῆλον εἰ διὰ ταύτην ἀνιάσεται, οὔτε τῷ δυνατοὺσ ἐν τῇ πόλει κηδεστὰσ λαβόντι δῆλον εἰ διὰ τούτουσ στερήσεται τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 10:2)
  • οἱᾶ δ’ ἐξειργάσατο, ὦ δημόται, τὰ περιβόητα καὶ δεινὰ περὶ τοὺσ κηδεστὰσ ἀμφοτέρουσ ἐπιχειρήματα ἐπὶ ταῖσ δυσμαῖσ ὄντασ ἤδη τοῦ βίου; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 79 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a connexion by marriage

Related

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

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