δείπνων (deipnon)

δείπνων is an Ancient Greek form of δεῖπνον, meaning “meal, dinner”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of δεῖπνος, “meal, dinner”.

It can also be a form of δειπνέω, “dine”.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.2: … πιάδι, Θαργηλιῶνος ἑβδόμῃ, καθʼ ἣν Δήλιοι τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα γενέσθαι φασί. τελευτᾷ δὲ—ὥς φησιν Ἕρμιππος, ἔν γάμοις δειπνῶν—τῷ πρώτῳ ἔτει τῆς ὀγδόης καὶ ἑκατοστῆς Ὀλυμπιάδος, βιοὺς ἔτος ἓν πρὸς τοῖς ὀγδοήκοντα.

Euripides, Cyclops 31: Κύκλωπι δείπνων ἀνοσίων διάκονος.

All forms of δεῖπνον (declension 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.