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Ὀλύμπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀλύμπιος Ὀλύμπιον

Structure: Ὀλυμπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Olympian, of Olympus, dwelling on Olympus

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative Ὀλύμπιος Ὀλύμπιον
Genitive Ὀλυμπίου Ὀλυμπίου
Dative Ὀλυμπίῳ Ὀλυμπίῳ
Accusative Ὀλύμπιον Ὀλύμπιον
Vocative Ὀλύμπιε Ὀλύμπιον
DualN/A/V Ὀλυμπίω Ὀλυμπίω
G/D Ὀλυμπίοιν Ὀλυμπίοιν
PluralNominative Ὀλύμπιοι Ὀλύμπια
Genitive Ὀλυμπίων Ὀλυμπίων
Dative Ὀλυμπίοις Ὀλυμπίοις
Accusative Ὀλυμπίους Ὀλύμπια
Vocative Ὀλύμπιοι Ὀλύμπια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective Ὀλύμπιος Ὀλυμπίου Ὀλυμπιώτερος Ὀλυμπιωτέρου Ὀλυμπιώτατος Ὀλυμπιωτάτου
Adverb Ὀλυμπίως Ὀλυμπιώτερον Ὀλυμπιώτατα

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

  • "ὁ βίοσ ἄριστα δημιουργήματα ἐθεάσατο, τὸν Δία τὸν Ὀλύμπιον καὶ Πρωτέα· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 7:1)
  • Δία τε Κρονίδαν ὕμνησον Ὀλύμπιον ἀρχαγὸν θεῶν, τόν τ’ ἀκαμαντορόαν Ἀλφεόν, Πέλοπόσ τε βίαν, καὶ Πίσαν, ἔνθ’ ὁ κλεεννὸσ ποσσὶ νικάσασ δρόμῳ ἦλθ]εν Φερένικοσ < ἐσ > εὐπύργουσ Συρακόσ‐ σασ Ιἕρωνι φέρων εὐδ]αιμονίασ πέταλον. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 14:2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεί ῥα πόνον μάκαρεσ θεοὶ ἐξετέλεσσαν, Τιτήνεσσι δὲ τιμάων κρίναντο βίηφι, δή ῥα τότ’ ὤτρυνον βασιλευέμεν ἠδὲ ἀνάσσειν Γαίησ φραδμοσύνῃσιν Ὀλύμπιον εὐρύοπα Ζῆν ἀθανάτων· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 81:1)
  • οὐκ εὖ φρονεῖσ μὰ τὸν Δία τὸν Ὀλύμπιον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics4)
  • ἰδού γ’ ἰδού, Δί’ Ὀλύμπιον· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics5)

Synonyms

  1. Olympian

Related

Similar forms

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

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