Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

θεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεῖος θεῖα θεῖον

Structure: θει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: comp. and Sup. qeio/teros, -o/tatos, qew/teros being comp. of qeo/s

Sense

  1. of or from the gods or God, divine
  2. belonging or sacred to a god, holy
  3. super-human (used of heroic figures)
  4. Imperial

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative θεῖος θείᾱ θεῖον
Genitive θείου θείᾱς θείου
Dative θείῳ θείᾱͅ θείῳ
Accusative θεῖον θείᾱν θεῖον
Vocative θεῖε θείᾱ θεῖον
DualN/A/V θείω θείᾱ θείω
G/D θείοιν θείαιν θείοιν
PluralNominative θεῖοι θεῖαι θεῖα
Genitive θείων θειῶν θείων
Dative θείοις θείαις θείοις
Accusative θείους θείᾱς θεῖα
Vocative θεῖοι θεῖαι θεῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective θεῖος θείου θειώτερος θειωτέρου θειώτατος θειωτάτου
Adverb θείως θειώτερον θειώτατα

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. of or from the gods or God

  2. belonging or sacred to a god

  3. super-human

  4. Imperial

Related

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

Find this word at Wiktionary

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION