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δεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεινός δεινή δεινόν

Structure: δειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from de/os, properly deeino/s, cf. e)leeino/s, e)leino/s, from e)/leos

Sense

  1. terrible, horrible, fearful, astounding
  2. (neuter substantive) danger
  3. marvelous, mighty, powerful
  4. wondrous, strange
  5. able, skillful, clever
  6. shamefully timid, cowardly

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative δεινός δεινή δεινόν
Genitive δεινοῦ δεινῆς δεινοῦ
Dative δεινῷ δεινῇ δεινῷ
Accusative δεινόν δεινήν δεινόν
Vocative δεινέ δεινή δεινόν
DualN/A/V δεινώ δεινᾱ́ δεινώ
G/D δεινοῖν δειναῖν δεινοῖν
PluralNominative δεινοί δειναί δεινά
Genitive δεινῶν δεινῶν δεινῶν
Dative δεινοῖς δειναῖς δεινοῖς
Accusative δεινούς δεινᾱ́ς δεινά
Vocative δεινοί δειναί δεινά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective δεινός δεινοῦ δεινότερος δεινοτεροῦ δεινότατος δεινοτατοῦ
Adverb δεινώς δεινότερον δεινότατα

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

  • καὶ εἶπε πρόσ με. στῆθι δὴ ἐπάνω μου καὶ θανάτωσόν με, ὅτι κατέσχε με σκότοσ δεινόν, ὅτι πᾶσα ἡ ψυχή μου ἐν ἐμοί. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 1:9)
  • οὐδέν , ὦ Ἀθηνᾶ, δεινὸν οὐδὲ καθ’ ὑμῶν, ἀλλ’ ἤρετό με εἰ ἄγαμοσ ὁ Πάρισ ἐστίν. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 4:2)
  • δεινὸν δέ τι συμβαίνει πολλοῖσ τῶν κρινόντων, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 3:1)
  • "ἢ τί σοι δεινὸν πάσχειν δοκῶ; (Lucian, (no name) 16:5)
  • χρώματα δὲ αὐτῆσ τό τε στριφνὸν καὶ τὸ πικρὸν καὶ τὸ πυκνὸν καὶ τὸ αὐστηρὸν καὶ τὸ ἐμβριθὲσ καὶ τὸ δεινὸν καὶ φοβερόν, ὑπὲρ ἅπαντα δὲ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα τὸ παθητικόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. terrible

  2. danger

  3. marvelous

  4. wondrous

  5. able

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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