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κηδεστία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κηδεστία

Structure: κηδεστι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from khdesth/s

Sense

  1. connexion by marriage

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κηδεστία κηδεστίᾱ κηδεστίαι
Genitive κηδεστίᾱς κηδεστίαιν κηδεστιῶν
Dative κηδεστίᾱͅ κηδεστίαιν κηδεστίαις
Accusative κηδεστίᾱν κηδεστίᾱ κηδεστίᾱς
Vocative κηδεστίᾱ κηδεστίᾱ κηδεστίαι

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

  • πρὸσ θεῶν πατρῴων καὶ μητρῴων καὶ συγγενείασ καὶ κηδεστίασ καὶ ἑταιρίασ, πάντων γὰρ τούτων πολλοὶ κοινωνοῦμεν ἀλλήλοισ, αἰδούμενοι καὶ θεοὺσ καὶ ἀνθρώπουσ παύσασθε ἁμαρτάνοντεσ εἰσ τὴν πατρίδα, καὶ μὴ πείθεσθε τοῖσ ἀνοσιωτάτοισ τριάκοντα, οἳ ἰδίων κερδέων ἕνεκα ὀλίγου δεῖν πλείουσ ἀπεκτόνασιν Ἀθηναίων ἐν ὀκτὼ μησὶν ἢ πάντεσ Πελοποννήσιοι δέκα ἔτη πολεμοῦντεσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 25:1)

Synonyms

  1. connexion by marriage

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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