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Διοσημία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Διοσημία

Structure: Διοσημι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: sh=ma

Sense

  1. a sign from Zeus, an omen from the sky

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • λέγω δ’ ὑμῖν ὅτι διοσημία ’στὶ καὶ ῥανὶσ βέβληκέ με. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 5:27)
  • καὶ ὅταν συνερχομένων εἰσ μάχην στρατῶν ἢ διοσημία φανῇ αἰφνίδιοσ ἢ τῆσ γῆσ γένηται σεισμόσ, ἀποστρέφονται εὐθὺσ οἱ ἄνθρωποι καὶ ἀποχωροῦσιν ἀπ̓ ἀλλήλων, ὡσ τῶν θεῶν οὐ βουλομένων αὐτοὺσ μάχεσθαι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 34:3)
  • ἐοίκε δὲ καὶ τοῦτο Ὅμηροσ μαρτυρεῖν οὐ τότε γ’ ὧδ’ Ὀδυσῆοσ ἀγασσάμεθ’ εἶδοσ ἰδόντεσ, ὡσ ἔφη, τὴν πυκνότητα τῶν νοημάτων καὶ τῶν ῥημάτων καὶ τῆσ φωνῆσ τὴν μεγαλοπρέπειαν, διοσημίᾳ παρεικάζων τὴν ῥητορείαν αὐτοῦ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 104:8)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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