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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

  • 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 brother of one's father or mother

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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