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θεοτερπής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: theoterpēs

Principal Part: θεοτερπής θεοτερπές

Structure: θεοτερπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: τέρπω

Sense

  1. fit for the gods

Examples

  • πάντ ἔπαθεν λιπαρόν τ ἐς ἐγχέλεά τινες ἄριστον γογγροπροσωποτόμων πλῆρες θεοτερπές. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 1:3)
  • εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν ἀπόστολον Ιωἄννην οὐρανίης σοφίης θεοτερπὲς δῶμα κιχήσας εἶπεν Ιωἄννης, ὡς Θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 821)

Synonyms

  1. fit for the gods

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

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