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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

  • Φασὶ δὲ αὐτῷ τὰσ Σελευκείασ οἰκίζοντι, τὴν μὲν ἐπὶ τῇ θαλάσσῃ, διοσημίαν ἡγήσασθαι κεραυνοῦ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο θεὸν αὐτοῖσ κεραυνὸν ἔθετο, καὶ θρησκεύουσι καὶ ὑμνοῦσι καὶ νῦν κεραυνόν· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 7:1)

Related

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

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