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δῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δῖος δῖη δῖον

Structure: δῑ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: di/a with short iota in Eur.

Sense

  1. god-like, divine, noblest, worthy, trusty, noble
  2. divine, wondrous
  3. of or from Zeus

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative δῖος δῑ́ᾱ δῖον
Genitive δῑ́ου δῑ́ᾱς δῑ́ου
Dative δῑ́ῳ δῑ́ᾱͅ δῑ́ῳ
Accusative δῖον δῑ́ᾱν δῖον
Vocative δῖε δῑ́ᾱ δῖον
DualN/A/V δῑ́ω δῑ́ᾱ δῑ́ω
G/D δῑ́οιν δῑ́αιν δῑ́οιν
PluralNominative δῖοι δῖαι δῖα
Genitive δῑ́ων δῑῶν δῑ́ων
Dative δῑ́οις δῑ́αις δῑ́οις
Accusative δῑ́ους δῑ́ᾱς δῖα
Vocative δῖοι δῖαι δῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective δῖος δῑ́ου δῑώτερος δῑωτέρου δῑώτατος δῑωτάτου
Adverb δῑ́ως δῑώτερον δῑώτατα

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

  • οἱ δ’ ἀροτῆρεσ ἤρεικον χθόνα δῖαν, ἐπιστολάδην δὲ χιτῶνασ ἐστάλατ’. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 26:5)
  • εἰ δέ κεν ἠελίοιο τροπῇσ ἀρόῳσ χθόνα δῖαν, ἥμενοσ ἀμήσεισ ὀλίγον περὶ χειρὸσ ἐέργων, ἀντία δεσμεύων κεκονιμένοσ, οὐ μάλα χαίρων, οἴσεισ δ’ ἐν φορμῷ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 55:1)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ἄμφεπε θερμὸσ ἀυτμὴ Τιτῆνασ χθονίουσ, φλὸξ δ’ αἰθέρα δῖαν ἵκανεν ἄσπετοσ, ὄσσε δ’ ἄμερδε καὶ ἰφθίμων περ ἐόντων αὐγὴ μαρμαίρουσα κεραυνοῦ τε στεροπῆσ τε. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 67:6)
  • ἔνθα δ’ ἀποβρίξαντεσ ἐμείναμεν ἠῶ δῖαν ταύτῃ οὖν ὅταν θύωσιν αἱ Δηλιάδεσ, προσφέρουσιν αὐτῇ σκάφασ πάντων πλήρεισ ἀγαθῶν πλὴν ἰχθύων διὰ τὸ εὔχεσθαι ταύτῃ περί τε πάντων καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆσ τῶν πλοίων σωτηρίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 12 2:1)
  • ᾧ δέ κε τῶν λυγρῶν δώῃ, λωβητὸν ἔθηκε καὶ ἑ κακὴ βούβρωστισ ἐπὶ χθόνα δῖαν ἐλαύνει, φοιτᾷ δ’ οὔτε θεοῖσι τετιμένοσ οὔτε βροτοῖσιν. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 7 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. divine

  2. of or from Zeus

Related

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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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