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θεῖος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεῖος

Structure: θει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the brother of one's father or mother, uncle

Declension

Second declension

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

  • ὦ πατρὸσ ὅμαιμε θεῖε, τὸν κατὰ χθονὸσ θανόντ’ ἀκούειν τάδε δόκει, ποτωμένην ψυχὴν ὑπὲρ σοῦ, καὶ λέγειν ἃ ἐγὼ λέγω, ταὔτ’ ἔσ τε δάκρυα καὶ γόουσ καὶ συμφοράσ. (Euripides, episode, iambic 19:13)
  • αἴθ’ ἐπ’ ἐμεῦ ζωοῖσ ἐναρίθμιοσ ὤφελεσ εἶμεν, ὥσ τοι ἐγὼν ἐνόμευον ἀν’ ὤρεα τὰσ καλὰσ αἶγασ φωνᾶσ εἰσαϊών, τὺ δ’ ὑπὸ δρυσὶν ἢ ὑπὸ πεύκαισ ἁδὺ μελισδόμενοσ κατεκέκλισο θεῖε Κομάτα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 40)
  • Γρηγόριοσ, Βασίλειε, τεῇ κόνι τήνδ’ ἀνέθηκα τῶν ἐπιγραμματίων, θεῖε, δυωδεκάδα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 11 1:1)
  • πῶσ γὰρ ἂν ἄλλωσ ἀποκρίναιτο, ὦ θεῖε, Λακεδαιμονίων γε ὁστισοῦν; (Plato, Laws, book 1 13:4)
  • καὶ σύγε, ὅ τι βούλει, ἔφη, ὦ θεῖε, τιμωρησάμενοσ τοῦτο ὅμωσ χάρισαί μοι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 13:6)

Synonyms

  1. the brother of one's father or mother

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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