δεόμενον (deomenon)

δεόμενον is an Ancient Greek form of δέω, meaning “lack, need; (mid.) need, ask for”.

It can also be a form of δέομαι, “need, ask for, beg (gen.)”. It is the present middle/passive participle accusative singular masculine.

Found 218 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 14.1: … ὸς τοὺς Σαβίνους· οὐδὲ γὰρ πολλάς, ἀλλὰ τριάκοντα μόνας παρθένους λαβεῖν αὐτόν, ἅτε δὴ πολέμου μᾶλλον ἢ γάμων δεόμενον.

Plutarch, De liberis educandis 20: … ειρημένας συμπεριλαβεῖν εὐχῆς ἴσως ἢ παραινέσεως ἔργον ἐστί· τὸ δὲ τὰς πλείους ζηλῶσαι καὶ αὐτὸ μὲν εὐμοιρίας δεόμενόν ἐστι καὶ πολλῆς ἐπιμελείας, ἀνυστὸν δʼ οὖν ἀνθρωπίνῃ φύσει καθέστηκεν.

All forms of δέω (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.