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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

  • "κενόδοξον τολμᾷ λέγειν, ὦ γῆ καὶ ἥλιε καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ θάλαττα καὶ πατρῷε Ἡράκλεισ ‐ Πρωτέα τὸν ἐν Συρίᾳ δεθέντα, τὸν τῇ πατρίδι ἀνέντα πεντακισχίλια τάλαντα, τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων πόλεωσ ἐκβληθέντα, τὸν τοῦ Ἡλίου ἐπισημότερον, τὸν αὐτῷ ἀνταγωνίσασθαι τῷ Ὀλυμπίῳ δυνάμενον; (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 5:1)
  • πρὸσ δ’ Ἀλφεὸν θύσοντεσ ἐρχόμεσθ’ Ὀλυμπίῳ Διί. (Euripides, episode 1:9)
  • Ἀλκιβιάδησ δὲ Ὀλύμπια νικήσασ ἁρ́ματι πρῶτοσ καὶ δεύτεροσ καὶ τέταρτοσ, εἰσ ἃσ νίκασ καὶ Εὐριπίδησ ἔγραψεν ἐπινίκιον, θύσασ Ὀλυμπίῳ Διὶ τὴν πανήγυριν πᾶσαν εἱστίασε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 5 1:1)
  • ἀναγκάζονται, πολλάκισ ἀπαγορεύοντοσ οὐκ ἐνδιδόντεσ ἀλλὰ προσβιαζόμενοι θνητὸν ἀθανάτῳ καὶ γηγενὲσ Ὀλυμπίῳ συναμιλλᾶσθαι καὶ συνεξανύτειν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 27 2:1)
  • "αὐτῆσ δὲ νώθειαν καὶ τάχουσ ἀμβλύτητα καὶ τὸ θερμὸν ἀδρανὲσ καὶ ἀμαυρόν, ᾧ κατὰ τὸν Ιὤνα μέλασ οὐ πεπαίνεται βότρυσ, εἰσ τί θησόμεθα πλὴν ἀσθένειαν αὐτῆσ καὶ πάθοσ, εἰ πάθουσ ἀιδίῳ σώματι καὶ ὀλυμπίῳ μέτεστιν; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 16 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. Olympian

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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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