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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

  • ἐπεί νιν ἡρ́πασ’ ἐκ πυρὸσ κεραυνίου Ζεύσ, ἐσ δ’ Ὄλυμπον βρέφοσ ἀνήγαγεν θεόν, Ἥρα νιν ἤθελ’ ἐκβαλεῖν ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ· (Euripides, episode 9:3)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐν πύλαισιν Αἰνέασ ὁ τῆσ θεοῦ πάρεστ’ ἐπ’ ὤμων πατέρ’ ἔχων κεραυνίου νώτου καταστάζοντα βύσσινον φάροσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 48 3:1)

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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