ἐνδεέστερον (endeesteron)

ἐνδεέστερον is an Ancient Greek form of ἐνδεής, meaning “lacking, in need”. It is the adjective.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Solon 16.2: σόλων δὲ τούτου μὲν οὐκ ἐφίκετο τῇ πολιτεία δημοτικὸς ὢν καὶ μέσος, ἐνδεέστερον δὲ τῆς ὑπαρχούσης δυνάμεως οὐδὲν ἔπαξεν, ὁρμώμενος ἐκ μόνου τοῦ βούλεσθαι καὶ πιστεύειν αὐτῷ τοὺς πολίτας. ὅτ …

Lucian of Samosata, Nigrinus 9: … οῦ σοι πεῖραν παρέχω, ὁποῖός τίς εἰμι τὴν μνήμην ὑποκριτής, οὐδὲν ἀγγέλου τὰ ἄλλα τραγικοῦ διαφέρων. ὥστε κἂν ἐνδεέστερόν τι δοκῶ λέγειν, ἐκεῖνο μὲν ἔστω πρόχειρον, ὡς ἄμεινον ἦν, καὶ ἄλλως ὁ ποιητὴς ἴσως διεξῄει· ἐμὲ δὲ κἂν ἐκσυρί …

All forms of ἐνδεής (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.