κηδεστήν (kedesten)

κηδεστήν is an Ancient Greek form of κηδεστής, meaning “relative by marriage”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hecuba 834: τοῦτον καλῶς δρῶν ὄντα κηδεστὴν σέθεν

Plutarch, Sulla 6.5: … ον ἔοικε νέμειν καὶ ὅλως ἑαυτὸν τοῦ δαίμονος ποιεῖν, ὅς γε καὶ τῆς πρὸς Μέτελλον ὁμονοίας, ἰσότιμον ἄνδρα καὶ κηδεστήν, εὐτυχίαν τινὰ θείαν αἰτιᾶται· πολλὰ γὰρ αὐτῷ πράγματα παρέξειν ἐπίδοξον ὄντα πρᾳότατον ἐν τῇ κοινωνίᾳ γενέσθ …

All forms of κηδεστής (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.