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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)
  • 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

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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