The corpus record

κηδ-εία

kedeia · ἡ

care, funeral, mourning

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Where it lives

Suppliants 2 · 2.84/10k
Machabaeorum II 2 · 1.73/10k
Against Aristocrates 1 · 0.65/10k
Politics 4 · 0.61/10k
Memorabilia 1 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

κηδ-εία · kēd-eia — LSJ

care, funeral, mourning

care for the dead, funeral, A.R. 2.836; κ. καὶ περιστολή D.H. 3.21, BGU 896.7 (ii A.D.), cf. Onos. 36.1, etc.; mourning, ἐξανίστασθαι ἐκ τῆς κηδείας SIG 1219.14 (Gambreum, iii B.C.).

II connexion by marriage, alliance

connexion by marriage, alliance, κηδείαν ξυνάψαι τινί E. Supp. 134; συνάγειν ἀνθρώπους εἰς κ. X. Mem. 2.6.36; κ. συνάπτεσθαι πρός τινα Plb. 1.9.2; ἢ πρὸς αἵματος ἢ κατὰ . . κηδείαν Arist. Pol. 1262a11; κηδεῖαι ἐγένοντο κατὰ τὰς πόλεις ib. 1280b36; ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Διονύσιον κ. ib. 1307a39.

In the wild

κηδείαν · kēdeian Aristotle, Politics 1262a (DIORISIS sentence 381)
κηδεῖαί · kēdeiai Aristotle, Politics 1280b (DIORISIS sentence 1087)
κηδείας · kēdeias Aristotle, Politics 1303b (DIORISIS sentence 1894)
κηδείας · kēdeias Aristotle, Politics 1307a (DIORISIS sentence 1988)
κηδείᾳ · kēdeiai Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates 157 (DIORISIS sentence 553)
κηδείαν · kēdeian Euripides, Suppliants (DIORISIS sentence 77)

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