δέδια (dedia)

δέδια is an Ancient Greek form of δείδω, meaning “fear, be afraid”. It is the 1st person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium 3·3: … ος δεινοῦ καὶ μεγάλου συμβάντος; τί δʼ εἶπον οὐ μέλλω; στάσεως γάρ, ὦ Θαλῆ, καὶ διαφορᾶς τὸ σημεῖόν ἐστι, καὶ δέδια μὴ μέχρι γάμου καὶ γενεᾶς ἐξίκηται, πρὶν ἢ τὸ πρῶτον ἐξιλάσασθαι μήνιμα, τῆς θεοῦ δεύτερον ὡς ὁρᾷς προφαινούσ …

Lucian of Samosata, Prometheus es in verbis 7: Δέδια τοίνυν μὴ αὖθις ὅμοιόν τι τῷ Προμηθεῖ τῷ σῷ πεποιηκὼς φαίνωμαι τὸ θῆλυ τῷ ἄρρενι ἐγκαταμίξας καὶ δἰ αὐτὸ δίκη …

All forms of δείδω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.