ΔΗΟΥΝΤΕΣ, δηουντες
DĒOUNTES, dēountes
Sounds Like: day-OH-oon-tes
Translations: laying waste, ravaging, destroying, wasting, devastating
From the root: ΔΗΟΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'laying waste' or 'ravaging'. It describes an ongoing action of destruction or devastation. It is used to describe those who are actively engaged in destroying or plundering a place, often in a military context.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Masculine, Nominative, Plural
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 4:4
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΗΟΩ.
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.
- ΔΗΟΥΜΕΝΗΝ — laying waste, being laid waste, ravaging, being ravaged, destroying, being destroyed
- ΔΗΟΥΝΤΟΣ — of destroying, of laying waste, of ravaging, of devastating
- ΔΗΩΘΗΝΑΙ — to be laid waste, to be ravaged, to be devastated, to be destroyed
- ΔΗΩΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having ravaged, having devastated, having plundered, having laid waste
- ΔΗΩΣΑΣ — having ravaged, having devastated, having laid waste, having plundered
- ΔΗΩΣΟΝ — to lay waste, to ravage, to destroy, to devastate
- ΔΗΩΣΟΝΤΑ — about to devastate, about to lay waste, about to destroy
- ἘΔΗΟΥ — laid waste, ravaged, plundered, devastated
- ἘΔΗΩΣΑΝ — they ravaged, they plundered, they laid waste
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