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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κηδεστής κηδεστᾱ́ κηδεσταί
Genitive κηδεστοῦ κηδεσταῖν κηδεστῶν
Dative κηδεστῇ κηδεσταῖν κηδεσταῖς
Accusative κηδεστήν κηδεστᾱ́ κηδεστᾱ́ς
Vocative κηδεστά κηδεστᾱ́ κηδεσταί

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

  • ἐπειδὴ μέντοι, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, πολλῶν χρημάτων ἀπεστέρηνται καὶ πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ πεπονθότεσ ὑφ’ ὦν ἥκιστα ἐχρῆν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ κηδεστὴν ὄντα κατέφυγον, ἀνάγκη μοι γεγένηται εἰπεῖν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 232)
  • τοῦτον καλῶσ δρῶν ὄντα κηδεστὴν σέθεν δράσεισ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 5:8)
  • οὐ χρῆν σε κρύπτειν ὄντα κηδεστὴν ἐμόν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics13)
  • Εὐριπίδην φάσ’ ἄνδρα κηδεστήν τινα αὑτοῦ γέροντα δεῦρ’ ἀναπέμψαι τήμερον. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode7)
  • ὁ δὲ Κάτων ἔλεγεν ὅτι χρήματα μὲν ἐκ Κύπρου τοσαῦτα τῇ πόλει συναγάγοι μήτε ἵππον ἕνα μήτε στρατιώτην λαβών, ὅσα Πομπήϊοσ ἐκ πολέμων τοσούτων καὶ θριάμβων τὴν οἰκουμένην κυκήσασ οὐκ ἀνήνεγκε, κηδεστὴν δὲ μηδέποτε προελέσθαι Πομπήϊον, οὐκ ἀνάξιον ἡγούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὁρῶν τὴν ἐν τῇ πολιτείᾳ διαφοράν. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 45 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a connexion by marriage

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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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