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θεά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεά

Structure: θε (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

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

"σέ, ὦ Πάρι, κελεύει ὁ Ζεύσ, ἐπειδὴ καλόσ τε αὐτὸσ εἶ καὶ σοφὸσ τὰ ἐρωτικά, δικάσαι ταῖσ θεαῖσ, ἥτισ αὐτῶν ἡ καλλίστη ἐστὶν τοῦ δὲ ἀγῶνοσ τὸ ἆθλον ἡ νικῶσα λαβέτω τὸ μῆλον. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 1:1)
τὴν δὲ πόλιν αὐτὴν ὁρῶν ὀλιγωρίᾳ τῶν προεστώτων διεφθαρμένην, τῶν πολλῶν κλεπτόντων, μᾶλλον δὲ ἁρπαζόντων τὰ κοινά, ὑδάτων τε ἐπιρροίαισ ἀνεκτησάμην καὶ οἰκοδομημάτων ἀναστάσεσιν ἐκόσμησα καὶ τειχῶν περιβολῇ ἐκράτυνα καὶ τὰσ προσόδουσ, ὅσαι ἦσαν κοιναί, τῇ τῶν ἐφεστώτων ἐπιμελείᾳ ῥᾳδίωσ ἐπηύξησα καὶ τῆσ νεολαίασ ἐπεμελούμην καὶ τῶν γερόντων προὐνόουν καὶ τὸν δῆμον ἐν θέαισ καὶ διανομαῖσ καὶ πανηγύρεσι καὶ δημοθοινίαισ διῆγον, ὕβρεισ δὲ παρθένων ἢ ἐφήβων διαφθοραὶ ἢ γυναικῶν ἀπαγωγαὶ ἢ δορυφόρων ἐπιπέμψεισ ἢ δεσποτική τισ ἀπειλὴ ἀποτρόπαιά μοι καὶ ἀκοῦσαι ἦν. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 3:5)
ταῦτα δὲ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἔλεγεν, τὰ μὲν ἄλλα ἐπαινοῦσα τοῦ συγγράμματοσ, ἓν δὲ τοῦτο οὐ φέρουσα, ὅτι θεαῖσ αὐτήν, Ἥρᾳ καὶ Ἀφροδίτῃ, εἴκασασ· (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 7:1)
καί σε ὑπεμίμνησκε τῶν τελευταίων ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ περὶ αὐτῆσ εἰρημένων, ὅτι μετρίαν καὶ ἄτυφον ἔφησ αὐτὴν οὐκ ἀνατεινομένην ὑπὲρ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον μέτρον, ἀλλὰ πρόσγειον τὴν πτῆσιν ποιουμένην, ὁ δὲ ταῦτα εἰπὼν ὑπὲρ αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβιβάζεισ τὴν γυναῖκα, ὡσ καὶ θεαῖσ ἀπεικάζειν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 8:3)
"ἀνεπίφθονον μέντοι ποιήσασθαι τὸν ἔπαινον ἐχρῆν, ἀλλὰ μὴ θεαῖσ ἀπεικάζειν ἄνθρωπον οὖσαν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 23:3)

Synonyms

a goddess
- θέαινα (a goddess)
- ἀνδροθέα (the man-goddess)
- δαίμων (god, goddess)
- Λευκοθέα (the white goddess)
- Δίκτυννα (goddess of the chase)
- Αἶσα (the goddess of destiny)
- Αὐξησία (the Goddess of growth)
- Εὐμενίδες (the gracious goddesses, the)

Derived

θεά̄ (view, sight)

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

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a goddess

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