Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κεραύνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραύνιος κεραύνιᾱ κεραύνιον

Structure: κεραυνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a thunderbolt
  2. thunder-smitten

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)

Synonyms

  1. of a thunderbolt

  2. thunder-smitten

Related

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

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