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ἀποθέωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποθέωσις

Structure: ἀποθεωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)poqeo/w

Sense

  1. deification

Declension

Third 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

  • προσθετέον δ’ ἡμῖν τοῖσ εἰρημένοισ ὅτι μετὰ τὴν ἀποθέωσιν αὐτοῦ Ζεὺσ Ἥραν μὲν ἔπεισεν υἱοποιήσασθαι τὸν Ἡρακλέα καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν εἰσ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον μητρὸσ εὔνοιαν παρέχεσθαι, τὴν δὲ τέκνωσιν γενέσθαι φασὶ τοιαύτην· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 39 2:1)
  • μετὰ τὴν Ἡρακλέουσ τοίνυν ἀποθέωσιν οἱ παῖδεσ αὐτοῦ κατῴκουν ἐν Τραχῖνι παρὰ Κήυκι τῷ βασιλεῖ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 57 1:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι παρὰ σφίσι πωσ τὴν καταστροφὴν αὐτοῦ μυθεύουσιν, ἣν ἀποθέωσιν καλοῦσι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 3 18:21)

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

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