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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

  • οὐδ’ εἰ πεντάετέσ γε καὶ ἑξάετεσ παραμίμνων ἐξερέοισ ὅσα κεῖθι πάθον κακὰ δῖοι Ἀχαιοί· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 15:7)
  • ἔνθα δυώδεκα μὲν μένον ἤματα δῖοι Ἀχαιοί· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 25:6)
  • αὐτὰρ ὃ εἴδωλον τεῦξ’ ἀργυρότοξοσ Ἀπόλλων αὐτῷ τ’ Αἰνείᾳ ἴκελον καὶ τεύχεσι τοῖον, ἀμφὶ δ’ ἄρ’ εἰδώλῳ Τρῶεσ καὶ δῖοι Ἀχαιοὶ δῄουν ἀλλήλων ἀμφὶ στήθεσσι βοείασ ἀσπίδασ εὐκύκλουσ λαισήϊά τε πτερόεντα. (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 48:4)
  • οἳ μὲν ἄρ’ ἀντίθεον Σαρπηδόνα δῖοι ἑταῖροι ἐξέφερον πολέμοιο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 68:1)
  • οἳ μὲν ἄρ’ ἀντίθεον Σαρπηδόνα δῖοι ἑταῖροι εἷσαν ὑπ’ αἰγιόχοιο Διὸσ περικαλλέϊ φηγῷ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 71:2)
  • "οἱ μὲν γὰρ δὴ πάντεσ ὅσοι πάροσ ἦσαν ἄριστοι, Εὔβοιόσ τε καὶ Ἑρμογένησ δῖοί τε Φίλιπποι, οἱ μὲν δὴ τεθνᾶσι καὶ εἰν Αἴδαο δόμοισιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 54 1:3)
  • ἐν μὲν Ἀχαιοί, ἐν δ’ Ἐτεόκρητεσ μεγαλήτορεσ, ἐν δὲ Κύδωνεσ, Δωριέεσ τε τριχάϊκεσ δῖοί τε Πελασγοί. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 24:10)

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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