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θεσπέσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεσπέσιος θεσπέσιη θεσπέσιον

Structure: θεσπεσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qeo/s, e)/spon ei)=pon, v. qe/spis

Sense

  1. divinely sounding, divinely sweet
  2. that can be spoken by none but God, unspeakable, ineffable;
  3. divine, by the will of God, of divination
  4. wondrous, marvellous, portentous, awful, marvellous fine, divinely sweet
  5. unspeakably

Examples

  • νῦν σε, νῦν εὐχαῖσ ὑπὸ θεσπεσίαισ λίσσομαι παῖδα θρασὺν ἐξ Ἐριβοίασ ἀνδρὶ τῷδε, ξεῖνον ἀμὸν μοιρίδιον τελέσαι, τὸν μὲν ἄρρηκτον φυάν, ὥσπερ τόδε δέρμα με νῦν περιπλανᾶται θηρόσ, ὃν πάμπρωτον ἄθλων κτεῖνά ποτ’ ἐν Νεμέᾳ· (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 6 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. divinely sounding

  2. divine

  3. unspeakably

Related

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

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