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

  • καὶ πέλασ ἄλλοσ αὐ‐ τοῦ πανὸν πυρίφλεκτον αἴ‐ ρει τισ ‐ ἆρ’ ὃσ ἐμαῖσι μυ‐ θεύεται παρὰ πήναισ, ἀσπιστὰσ Ιὄλαοσ, ὃσ κοινοὺσ αἰρόμενοσ πόνουσ Δίῳ παιδὶ συναντλεῖ; (Euripides, Ion, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ‐ πάντᾳ τοι βλέφαρον διώ‐ κω. (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 21)
  • τευθίδεσ ἐν Δίῳ τῷ Πιερικῷ παρὰ χεῦμα Βαφύρα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 130 2:3)
  • ἦτα δ’, Αἰάσ πολέμιζε μόνῳ μόνοσ Ἕκτορι δίῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 385 1:3)
  • καὶ τούτων χαλκαῖ εἰκόνεσ ἐν Δίῳ ἑστᾶσιν, Ἀλεξάνδρου κελεύσαντοσ Λύσιππον ποιῆσαι, ὅσπερ καὶ Ἀλέξανδρον μόνοσ προκριθεὶσ ἐποίει· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 16 4:2)

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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