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θεά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεά

Structure: θε (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a goddess

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θεά θεᾱ́ θεαί
Genitive θεᾶς θεαῖν θεῶν
Dative θεᾷ θεαῖν θεαῖς
Accusative θεάν θεᾱ́ θεᾱ́ς
Vocative θεά θεᾱ́ θεαί

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

  • δεσμὸν δ’ ἄδεσμον τόνδ’ ἔχουσα φυλλάδοσ μένω πρὸσ ἁγναῖσ ἐσχάραισ δυοῖν θεαῖν Κόρησ τε καὶ Δήμητροσ, οἰκτίρουσα μὲν πολιὰσ ἄπαιδασ τάσδε μητέρασ τέκνων, σέβουσα δ’ ἱερὰ στέμματ’. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:8)
  • οὐκοῦν ἤν τινα καὶ τῶν μεμυημένων ἰδὼν ἐξαγορεύοντα ταῖν θεαῖν τὰ ἀπόρρητα καὶ ἐξορχούμενον ἀγανακτήσω καὶ διελέγξω, ἐμὲ τὸν ἀσεβοῦντα ἡγήσεσθε εἶναι; (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 33:2)
  • διὸ καὶ τριήρη κατασκευάσαντεσ ἱερὰν οἱ Κορίνθιοι ταῖν θεαῖν ἐπωνόμασαν. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 8 1:2)
  • θάλλει δ’ οὐρανίασ ὑπ’ ἄχνασ ὁ καλλίβοτρυσ κατ’ ἦμαρ ἀεὶ νάρκισσοσ, μεγάλαιν θεαῖν ἀρχαῖον στεφάνωμ’, ὅ τε χρυσαυγὴσ κρόκοσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ὅστισ δὲ μεμύηται ταῖν θεαῖν ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι, οἶδε τοῦ Εὐδανέμου τὸν βωμὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ δαπέδου ὄντα. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 16 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. a goddess

Derived

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

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