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

  • "ὁ γὰρ υἱὸσ αὐτοῦ ὁ Δίων, οὐκ οἶδ’ ἐφ’ ὅτῳ λυπηθείσ, μᾶλλον δὲ θεοσεχθρίᾳ σχεθείσ, ἀπῆγξεν ἑαυτόν, καὶ εὖ ἴστε, ἀπωλώλει ἄν, εἰ μὴ ἐγὼ ἐπιστὰσ ἀπηγχόνισά τε αὐτὸν καὶ παρέλυσα τῆσ ἐμβροχῆσ, ἐπὶ πολύ τε ὀκλὰξ παρακαθήμενοσ ἐπένυσσον ^ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, βαυκαλῶν καὶ διακωδωνίζων, μή πη ἔτι συνεχὴσ εἰή τὴν φάρυγγα. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 11:5)
  • Περσικὰ δὲ ἦν τὸ πάντα τετάχθαι, καὶ πάντ’ ἐφορᾶν αὐτόν, καθ’ ὃ ἔλεγε Δίων περὶ Διονυσίου· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 35:1)
  • λυπεῖ δὲ τὸν μὲν Λυδὸν υἱὸσ κωφὸσ ὤν, τὸν Πέρσην δὲ Κλέαρχοσ Κύρῳ ξενολογῶν, ἄλλον δὲ Δίων πρὸσ οὖσ τισι τῶν Συρακουσίων κοινολογούμενοσ, καὶ ἄλλον Παρμενίων ἐπαινούμενοσ καὶ Περδίκκαν Πτολεμαῖοσ καὶ Πτολεμαῖον Σέλευκοσ· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 25:8)
  • δίων κολοσυρτόν; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Agon, epirrheme 1:2)
  • Δίων Συρακούσιοσ, ἄγε λαβὼν ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 18:2)

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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