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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

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

  • προεισπέμπεται δὲ ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ, κομῶν ἤδη καὶ πλοκάμουσ καθειμένοσ καὶ μεσόλευκον χιτῶνα πορφυροῦν ἐνδεδυκὼσ καὶ ἱμάτιον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ λευκὸν ἀναβεβλημένοσ, ἁρ́πην ἔχων κατὰ τὸν Περσέα, ἀφ’ οὗ ἑαυτὸν ἐγενεαλόγει μητρόθεν καὶ οἱ ὄλεθροι ἐκεῖνοι Παφλαγόνεσ, εἰδότεσ αὐτοῦ ἄμφω τοὺσ γονέασ ἀφανεῖσ καὶ ταπεινούσ, ἐπίστευον τῷ χρησμῷ λέγοντι Περσείδησ γενεὴν Φοίβῳ φίλοσ οὗτοσ ὁρᾶται, δῖοσ Ἀλέξανδροσ, Ποδαλειρίου αἷμα λελογχώσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 11:1)
  • "Ὀδυσεὺσ καὶ δῖοσ ὑφορβὸσ ἐντύνοντ’ ἄριστον κειαμένω πῦρ," καὶ ἅπαξ ἐν Ἰλιάδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 193)
  • τὼ δ’ αὖτ’ ἐν κλισίῃσ Ὀδυσεὺσ καὶ δῖοσ ὑφορβὸσ ἐντύνοντ’ ἄριστον ἅμ’ ἠοῖ κειαμένω πῦρ ἔκπεμψάν τε νομῆασ ἅμ’ ἀγρομένοισι σύεσσι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 314)
  • νόησε δὲ δῖοσ Ὀδυσσεὺσ σαίνοντάσ τε κύνασ, ὑπὸ δὲ κτύποσ ἦλθε ποδοῖιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 316)
  • ἔπειτα τὸ τελευταῖον ὅ οἱ βιότοιο μάλιστα κήδετο οἰκήων οὓσ κτήσατο δῖοσ Ὀδυσσεύσ ἐντελῆ μὲν τὸν τρίτον ποιοῦν στίχον, τοῦ δὲ τετάρτου τῇ προσθήκῃ τὴν ἀκρίβειαν ἀφῃρημένον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2621)
  • μολῦναι δὲ καὶ τὸν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοισ νεὼν καὶ προσονομάσαι Διὸσ Ὀλυμπίου καὶ τὸν ἐν Γαριζίν, καθὼσ ἐτύγχανον οἱ τὸν τόπον οἰκοῦντεσ, Διὸσ Ξενίου. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 6:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ αὖ καὶ τόδε, ταύτην μὲν εἶναι συμβέβηκεν τοῦ Διὸσ ἀδελφὴν καὶ γυναῖκα, ταύτασ δὲ θυγατέρασ· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 8:5)
  • οἱο͂́ν τε ἀναδῦναι πρὸσ τοῦ Διὸσ κεκελευσμένον. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 8:9)
  • βασιλικὸν αὕτη καὶ σεμνὸν ἀπολάμπει καὶ ἀληθῶσ ἄξιον τοῦ Διόσ, ἥδε δ’ ὁρᾷ ἡδύ τι καὶ γλαφυρόν, καὶ προσαγωγὸν ἐμειδίασεν ‐ ἀλλ’ ἤδη μὲν ἅλισ ἔχω τῆσ εὐδαιμονίασ· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 11:3)

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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