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θεόπυρος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: theopyros

Principal Part: θεόπυρος θεόπυρον

Structure: θεοπυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πῦρ

Sense

  1. kindled by the gods

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

  • 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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