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

  • ἐκεῖνοσ εἶναί φησι Διόνυσον θεόν, ἐκεῖνοσ ἐν μηρῷ ποτ’ ἐρράφθαι Διόσ, ὃσ ἐκπυροῦται λαμπάσιν κεραυνίαισ σὺν μητρί, Δίουσ ὅτι γάμουσ ἐψεύσατο. (Euripides, episode 4:1)
  • δίουσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 89 1:1)

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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