Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φατειός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φατειός φατειή φατειόν

Structure: φατει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic for fate/os

Sense

  1. utterable, speakable

Examples

  • ἐν δ’ ὀφίων κεφαλαὶ δεινῶν ἔσαν, οὔ τι φατειῶν, δώδεκα, ταὶ φοβέεσκον ἐπὶ χθονὶ φῦλ’ ἀνθρώπων, οἵ τινεσ ἀντιβίην πόλεμον Διὸσ υἱῖ φέροιεν· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. utterable

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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