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δεσπόσυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεσπόσυνος

Structure: δεσποσυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: despo/ths

Sense

  1. of or belonging to the master or lord, arbitrary

Examples

  • εἴθ’ εὐχαῖσιν δεσποσύνοισ Λήδασ Ἑλένα φίλα παῖσ ἐλθοῦσα τύχοι τὰν Τρῳάδα λι‐ ποῦσα πόλιν, ἵν’ ἀμφὶ χαί‐ τᾳ δρόσον αἱματηρὰν ἑλιχθεῖσα λαιμοτόμῳ δεσποίνασ χειρὶ θάνοι ποινὰσ δοῦσ’ ἀντιπάλουσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • τούτων δ’ ἔσται πολὺ σεμνότερον καὶ λαμπρότερον παρὰ δεσποσύνοισ τοῖσ ἡμετέροισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to the master or lord

Related

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

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