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θεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεῖον θεῖου

Structure: θει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: v. qei=os II.

Sense

  1. the divinity

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θεῖον θείω θεῖα
Genitive θείου θείοιν θείων
Dative θείῳ θείοιν θείοις
Accusative θεῖον θείω θεῖα
Vocative θεῖον θείω θεῖα

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

  • ἐῶ γὰρ τοὺσ Αἰγυπτίουσ, οἵπερ καὶ δεισιδαιμονέστατοὶ εἰσιν πάντων, ὅμωσ τοῖσ θείοισ ὀνόμασιν εἰσ κόρον ἐπιχρωμένουσ· (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 27:5)
  • πολὺσ ταραγμὸσ ἔν τε τοῖσ θείοισ ἔνι κἀν τοῖσ βροτείοισ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 3:47)
  • ὥστε πάντῃ μεταλαμβάνοντι δυσδιαίτητον εἶναι τήν κρίσιν, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ δαιμόνιον ἀμφοτέροισ ἐοίκεν εὐμενὲσ γενέσθαι, τῷ μὲν ἃ χρὴ κατορθοῦν, τῷ δ’ ἃ φυλάττεσθαι χρὴ προμηνῦον, ὥστε καὶ τὴν παρὰ τῶν θεῶν ψῆφον αὐτοῖσ ὑπάρχειν ὡσ ἀγαθοῖσ καὶ θείοισ τήν φύσιν ἀμφοτέροισ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon, chapter 3 6:2)
  • "ταῦτα γὰρ ὁ Τυφών ἐστιν, ὃν πολὺν ὑμῖν ἐνεποίησεν ὁ καθηγεμὼν καὶ θεοῖσ πολεμῶν καὶ θείοισ ἀνδράσι. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 218)
  • τὸ δ’ ἀληθέστατον, φεύγει καὶ πλανᾶται θείοισ ἐλαυνομένη δόγμασι καὶ νόμοισ· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 17 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. the divinity

Derived

Similar forms

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

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