Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

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

  • ἢ νάσων, ἁλιήρει κώπᾳ πεμπομέναν τάλαι‐ ναν, οἰκτρὰν βιοτὰν ἔχουσαν οἴκοισ, ἔνθα πρωτόγονόσ τε φοῖ‐ νιξ δάφνα θ’ ἱεροὺσ ἀνέ‐ σχε πτόρθουσ Λατοῖ φίλᾳ ὠ‐ δῖνοσ ἄγαλμα Δίασ; (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • Νείλου μὲν αἵδε καλλιπάρθενοι ῥοαί, ὃσ ἀντὶ δίασ ψακάδοσ Αἰγύπτου πέδον λευκῆσ νοτίζει μελανοσυρμαῖον λεών. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode12)
  • Νείλου μὲν αἵδε καλλιπάρθενοι ῥοαί, ὃσ ἀντὶ δίασ ψακάδοσ Αἰγύπτου πέδον λευκῆσ τακείσησ χιόνοσ ὑγραίνει γύασ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 1:1)
  • κρᾶτα φόνιον ὀλεσίθηροσ ὠλένασ δικὼν βολαῖσ, δίασ ἀμάτοροσ <δ’> ἐσ βαθυσπόρουσ γύασ γαπετεῖσ δικὼν ὀδόν‐ τασ Παλλάδοσ φραδαῖσιν· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • ἀγγεῖον δ’ ἐστὶν ἐν ᾧ τοὺσ κτησίουσ Δίασ ἐγκαθιδρύουσιν, ὡσ Αὐτοκλείδησ φησὶν ἐν τῷ Ἐξηγητικῷ γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 464)

Synonyms

  1. divine

  2. of or from Zeus

Related

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

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