Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δέος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: δέος

Structure: δεο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: rare in pl. de/h

Sense

  1. fear, alarm, affright, to be dead afraid
  2. awe, reverence
  3. reason for fear, a means of inspiring fear

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

  • περιεκέχυτο γὰρ περὶ τὸν ἄνδρα δέοσ τι καὶ φρικασμὸσ σώματοσ, δἰ ὧν πρόδηλον ἐγίνετο τοῖσ θεωροῦσι τὸ κατὰ καρδίαν ἐνεστὸσ ἄλγοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 3:17)
  • καὶ νῦν, δυνάστα τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἀπόστειλον ἄγγελον ἀγαθὸν ἔμπροσθεν ἡμῶν εἰσ δέοσ καὶ τρόμον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:23)
  • τῷ λόγῳ δὲ νῦν ἂν μάλιστα ἀνηβᾶν καὶ ἀνθεῖν καὶ ἀκμάζειν καθ’ ὡρ́αν εἰή καὶ ἕλκειν τῶν ὤτων ὅσουσ ἂν πλείστουσ δύνηται, καὶ τοξεύειν πολλάκισ, ὡσ οὐδέν γε δέοσ μὴ κενωθεὶσ λάθοι ὁ γωρυτὸσ αὐτῷ. (Lucian, Hercules, 8:2)
  • δέοσ δὲ οὐ μικρόν μοι ἐπὶ τούτοισ τῆσ ἀποθλίψεωσ ἐπέρχεται τῆσ ἐμαυτοῦ· (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 2:2)
  • λύων γὰρ τὰ πεπεμμένα βιβλία καὶ ἀναγιγνώσκων, εἴ τι εὑρ́οι ἐπισφαλὲσ καὶ παρακεκινδυνευμένον ἐν ταῖσ ἐρωτήσεσιν, κατεῖχεν αὐτὸσ καὶ οὐκ ἀπέπεμπεν, ὡσ ὑποχειρίουσ καὶ μονονουχὶ δούλουσ διὰ τὸ δέοσ ἔχοι τοὺσ πεπομφότασ, μεμνημένουσ οἱᾶ ἦν ἃ ἤροντο. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 32:2)

Synonyms

  1. fear

  2. awe

  3. reason for fear

Related

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

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