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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

  • ἀλλὰ σύ γ’ ἡμετέρησ μεμνημένοσ αἰὲν ἐφετμῆσ ἐργάζευ, Πέρση, δῖον γένοσ, ὄφρα σε λιμὸσ ἐχθαίρῃ, φιλέῃ δέ σ’ ἐυστέφανοσ Δημήτηρ αἰδοίη, βιότου δὲ τεὴν πιμπλῇσι καλιήν· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 36:4)
  • τόν ῥα νέον τέρεν ἄνθοσ ἔχοντ’ ἐρικυδέοσ ἥβησ παῖδ’ ἀταλὰ φρονέοντα φιλομμειδὴσ Ἀφροδίτη ὦρτ’ ἀναρεψαμένη, καί μιν ζαθέοισ ἐνὶ νηοῖσ νηοπόλον νύχιον ποιήσατο, δαίμονα δῖον. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 107:3)
  • ἦ ῥα, καὶ Ἕκτορα δῖον ἀεικέα μήδετο ἔργα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1885)
  • τέταρτον δὲ οἷ οἱ Ἀθήνη πέφραδε δῖον ὑφορβόν ἐξ ἡμιστιχίων δύο συγκείμενον καὶ τοῖσ προτέροισ οὐδὲν ἐοικόσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2620)
  • ἠράμεθα μέγα κῦδοσ, ἐπέφνομεν Ἕκτορα δῖον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 50 3:3)

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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