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χῆτος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χῆτος χῆτεος

Structure: χητο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xate/w

Sense

  1. want, need, from want or need

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

  • "χήτει οἰκείων κοσμούμενον" εὐθὺσ οὖν ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ σκοπῶμεν. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 5 9:1)
  • ὧσ δὲ καὶ Ὑψιπύλη ἠρήσατο χεῖρασ ἑλοῦσα Αἰσονίδεω, τὰ δέ οἱ ῥέε δάκρυα χήτει ἰόντοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 15:30)
  • μηδ’ ἔνθεν ἑκαστέρω ὁρμηθεῖσαν χήτει κηδεμόνων ὀνοτὴν καὶ ἀεικέα θείησ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 2:21)
  • ὀφθήσεται δὴ μαλθακόν τινα καὶ οὐ στερεὸν διώκων, οὐδ’ ἐν ἡλίῳ καθαρῷ τεθραμμένον ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ συμμιγεῖ σκιᾷ, πόνων μὲν ἀνδρείων καὶ ἱδρώτων ξηρῶν ἄπειρον, ἔμπειρον δὲ ἁπαλῆσ καὶ ἀνάνδρου διαίτησ, ἀλλοτρίοισ χρώμασι καὶ κόσμοισ χήτει οἰκείων κοσμούμενον, ὅσα τε ἄλλα τούτοισ ἕπεται πάντα ἐπιτηδεύοντα, ἃ δῆλα καὶ οὐκ ἄξιον περαιτέρω προβαίνειν, ἀλλὰ ἓν κεφάλαιον ὁρισαμένουσ ἐπ’ ἄλλο ἰέναι· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 85:2)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἀνάγκη διὰ τὸ , εἴ πού τι δυνησόμεθα εὑρέσθαι παρὰ τῶν παλαιῶν ἀνδρῶν ὥσπερ ἀπερριμμένον ἤδη καὶ ἑώλον σοφίασ λείψανον χήτει τῶν κρειττόνων τε καὶ ζώντων διδασκάλων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 14:3)

Synonyms

  1. want

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

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