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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

  • φίλα γ’ ἔχων κηδεύματα. (Euripides, episode, trochees 2:20)
  • τὸν δ’ ἐναντίωσ πεφυκότα ἐπὶ τἀναντία χρὴ κηδεύματα πορεύεσθαι. (Plato, Laws, book 6 153:1)
  • ἔστιν δ’ ὅτε καὶ συμφορὰν τὴν μεγίστην τοῦ νομοθέτου προστάττοντοσ, ἀπειθεῖν ἀναγκάζοιτ’ ἂν τῷ νόμῳ, μαινόμενα κηδεύματα ἀναγκάζοντοσ λαμβάνειν ἢ δεινὰσ ἄλλασ σωμάτων ἢ ψυχῶν συμφοράσ, ἃσ ἀβίωτον ζῆν κεκτημένῳ. (Plato, Laws, book 11 87:1)

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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