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θεόφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεόφορος θεόφορον

Structure: θεοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. possessed by a god, inspired, inspiration

Examples

  • ἐν ὀνόματι δέ, οἱο͂ν ἐροῦμεν ὀνόματα ἁπλᾶ ἢ σύνθετα δισύλλαβα, οὗ μορφή τισ ἐμφαίνεται τραγικὴ ἢ πάλιν ταπεινή, ἢ ἄθεα ὀνόματα, οἱο͂ν Κλεώνυμοσ, ἢ θεοφόρα, οἱο͂ν Διονύσιοσ, καὶ τοῦτο ἤτοι ἐξ ἑνὸσ θεοῦ ἢ πλεόνων, οἱο͂ν Ἑρμαφρόδιτοσ ἢ ἀπὸ Διὸσ ἄρχεσθαι, Διοκλῆσ, ἢ Ἑρμοῦ, Ἑρμόδωροσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 69 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. possessed by a god

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

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