ΔΕΙΠΝΟΥΣΙ, δειπνουσι
DEIPNOUSI, deipnousi
Sounds Like: dayp-NOO-see
Translations: they eat dinner, they dine, they sup
From the root: ΔΕΙΠΝΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to eat dinner' or 'to sup'. It refers to the act of partaking in the main meal of the day, which was typically eaten in the evening. It is used to describe a group of people performing this action.
Inflection: Third Person, Plural, Present, Indicative, Active
Strong’s number: G1172 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 8:16
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΕΙΠΝΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΔΕΙΠΝΕΙΝ — to dine, to eat, to sup, to have supper
- ΔΕΙΠΝΕΩ — to eat supper, to dine, to have supper
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΑΙ — to dine, to eat supper, to have a meal
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having dined, having eaten supper
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΑΣ — having dined, having eaten supper, having eaten, after dining
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΑΣΑ — having dined, having eaten supper, having eaten a meal
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΕΙΕΝ — he might dine, he might eat supper, he might have supper
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will dine, they will eat supper, they will have supper
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΩ — I will dine, I will eat supper, I will have supper
- ΔΕΙΠΝΗΣΩΝ — one who will dine, he who will eat supper, about to dine
- ΔΕΙΠΝΟΥΝΤΑ — dining, eating supper, having supper, those dining, those eating supper, those having supper
- ΔΕΙΠΝΟΥΝΤΕΣ — dining, eating supper, having supper, feasting
- ΔΕΙΠΝΟΥΝΤΙ — dining, eating dinner, having dinner, feasting, a diner, one who dines
- ΔΕΙΨΕΙ — will dine, will eat supper, will have supper
- ΔΙΠΝΕΙΝ — to dine, to eat supper, to have supper
- ΔΙΠΝΗΣΑΙ — to dine, to eat supper, to have a meal
- ΔΙΠΝΗΣΩ — I will eat supper, I will dine
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