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δεδοικώς (dedoikos)

δεδοικώς is an Ancient Greek form of δείδω, meaning “fear, be afraid”. It is the perfect active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 90 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 4.7.55: … μνεν, ἦν ἂν εἰκὸς λέγειν, φρονεῖν ὅπως δοκεῖ· κακῶς μέν, ἀλλʼ ἔδοξε. νῦν δʼ ἐς νόσον πεσὼν μακρὴν καὶ μὴ θάνῃ δεδοικὼς ὁ μὴ θεοὺς εἶναι λέγων, ὁ νηὸν οὐδὲ βλέψας,

Plutarch, Themistocles 31.2: … κεῖνόν τε κατεπράϋνε τῆς ὀργῆς καὶ πρὸς τὰ ἄλλα παρεῖχεν ἑαυτὸν εὐλαβέστερον, ἤδη καὶ τὸν φθόνον τῶν βαρβάρων δεδοικώς. οὐ γὰρ πλανώμενος περὶ τὴν Ἀσίαν, ὥς φησι Θεόπομπος, ἀλλʼ ἐν Μαγνησίᾳ μὲν οἰκῶν, καρπούμενος δὲ δωρεὰς μεγάλ …

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.