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θεόπυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεόπυρος θεόπυρον

Structure: θεοπυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. kindled by the gods

Examples

  • τότε δὴ τότε φαεν‐ νὰσ ἄστρων μετέβασ’ ὁδοὺσ Ζεὺσ καὶ φέγγοσ ἀελίου λευκόν τε πρόσωπον ἀ‐ οῦσ, τὰ δ’ ἕσπερα νῶτ’ ἐλαύ‐ νει θερμᾷ φλογὶ θεοπύρῳ, νεφέλαι δ’ ἔνυδροι πρὸσ ἄρ‐ κτον, ξηραί τ’ Ἀμμωνίδεσ ἕ‐ δραι φθίνουσ’ ἀπειρόδροσοι, καλλίστων ὄμβρων Διόθεν στερεῖσαι. (Euripides, choral, strophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. kindled by the gods

Similar forms

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

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