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κήδευμα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: kēdeuma

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)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον, ὡς εἰκός, ὁ λόγος ἐξέπληξε τὸν ἄνθρωπον, πόρρω μὲν γάμου τὸν Κάτωνα, πόρρω δ αὑτὸν οἰκίας ὑπατικῆς καὶ θριαμβικῶν κηδευμάτων τιθέμενον σπουδῇ δὲ χρώμενον ὁρῶν ἄσμενος ἐδέξατο, καὶ καταβάντες εὐθὺς εἰς ἀγοράν ἐποιοῦντο τὴν ἐγγύην. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 24 4:1)
  • ἄναξ, ἐμὸν κήδευμα, παῖ Μενοικέως, τίν ἡμὶν ἥκεις τοῦ θεοῦ φήμην φέρων· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:6)
  • 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)
  • 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

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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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