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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative οὐράνιος οὐρανίᾱ οὐράνιον
Genitive οὐρανίου οὐρανίᾱς οὐρανίου
Dative οὐρανίῳ οὐρανίᾱͅ οὐρανίῳ
Accusative οὐράνιον οὐρανίᾱν οὐράνιον
Vocative οὐράνιε οὐρανίᾱ οὐράνιον
DualN/A/V οὐρανίω οὐρανίᾱ οὐρανίω
G/D οὐρανίοιν οὐρανίαιν οὐρανίοιν
PluralNominative οὐράνιοι οὐράνιαι οὐράνια
Genitive οὐρανίων οὐρανιῶν οὐρανίων
Dative οὐρανίοις οὐρανίαις οὐρανίοις
Accusative οὐρανίους οὐρανίᾱς οὐράνια
Vocative οὐράνιοι οὐράνιαι οὐράνια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective οὐράνιος οὐρανίου οὐρανιότερος οὐρανιοτέρου οὐρανιότατος οὐρανιοτάτου
Adverb οὐρανίως οὐρανιότερον οὐρανιότατα

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

  • καὶ τὸν μικρῷ πρότερον τῶν οὐρανίων ἄστρων ἅπτεσθαι δοκοῦντα παρακομίζειν οὐδεὶσ ἐδύνατο διὰ τὸ τῆσ ὀσμῆσ ἀφόρητον βάροσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:10)
  • ἀλλ’ οἵδε δόμων ὑπὲρ ἀκροτάτων φαίνουσι τίνεσ ‐ δαίμονεσ ἢ θεῶν τῶν οὐρανίων; (Euripides, episode, anapests1)
  • τίσ ὁ θεοὺσ ἀνομίᾳ χραίνων, θνητὸσ ὤν, ἄφρονα λόγον οὐρανίων μακάρων κατέβαλ’, ὡσ ἄρ’ οὐ σθένουσιν θεοί; (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 17)
  • Ζεὺσ δ’ ἑδράνων> αὐγάζων ἐξ οὐρανίων ἄλλαν μοῖραν ἔκραινε. (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 13)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τοὺσ περὶ τῶν οὐρανίων τε καὶ θείων πρώτουσ παρ’ Ἕλλησι φιλοσοφήσαντασ, οἱο͂ν Φερεκύδην τε τὸν Σύριον καὶ Πυθαγόραν καὶ Θάλητα, πάντεσ συμφώνωσ ὁμολογοῦσιν Αἰγυπτίων καὶ Χαλδαίων γενομένουσ μαθητὰσ ὀλίγα συγγράψαι, καὶ ταῦτα τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν εἶναι δοκεῖ πάντων ἀρχαιότατα καὶ μόλισ αὐτὰ πιστεύουσιν ὑπ’ ἐκείνων γεγράφθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 16:1)

Synonyms

  1. heavenly

  2. in or of heaven

  3. reaching to heaven

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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