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οὐράνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οὐράνιος οὐράνιᾱ οὐράνιον

Structure: οὐρανι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. heavenly, of or in heaven, dwelling in heaven, the goddesses
  2. in or of heaven, fallen from heaven
  3. reaching to heaven, high as heaven, sky-high
  4. enormous, awful, furious, vehemently

Examples

  • ἥκιστ’ ἀλλ’ οὐράνιαι Νεφέλαι μεγάλαι θεαὶ ἀνδράσιν ἀργοῖσ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests3)
  • καὶ Σιμωνίδησ δὲ τὰσ Πλειάδασ Πελειάδασ εἴρηκεν ἐν τούτοισ ι δίδωτι δ’ εὖχοσ Ἑρμᾶσ ἐναγώνιοσ, Μαίασ εὐπλοκάμοιο παῖσ, ἔτικτε δ’ Ἄτλασ ἑπτὰ ἰοπλοκάμων φιλᾶν θυγατρῶν τὰν γ’ ἔξοχον εἶδοσ, ταὶ καλέονται Πελειάδεσ οὐράνιαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 803)
  • Αἰτίαι οὐράνιαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. z'. DHMOKRITOS 14:9)

Synonyms

  1. heavenly

  2. in or of heaven

  3. reaching to heaven

Related

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

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