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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

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

  • εὖ γε νὴ τὴν Ἥραν, ὦ φίλε, καὶ θείωσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 78:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀποθνῄσκοντα θείωσ, νοσοῦντα θείωσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 28:2)
  • πράττοντοσ δὲ τοῦ Κύρου ταῦτα θείωσ πωσ ἀφικνοῦνται ἀπὸ Ὑρκανίων ἄγγελοι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or from the gods or God

  2. belonging or sacred to a god

  3. super-human

  4. Imperial

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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