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κήδευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήδευμα κήδευματος

Structure: κηδευματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. connexion or alliance by marriage
  2. one who is so connected

Declension

Third 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

  • ἄναξ, ἐμὸν κήδευμα, παῖ Μενοικέωσ, τίν’ ἡμὶν ἥκεισ τοῦ θεοῦ φήμην φέρων; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:6)
  • Ἀντίγονον δὲ τὸν Ἀριστοβούλου στρατιὰν ἀθροίσαντα καὶ Φάβιον τεθεραπευκότα χρήμασιν κατῆγεν Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ Μενναίου διὰ τὸ κήδευμα. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 14 381:1)

Synonyms

  1. connexion or alliance 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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