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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative θεσπέσιος θεσπέσίᾱ θεσπέσιον
Genitive θεσπεσίου θεσπέσίᾱς θεσπεσίου
Dative θεσπεσίῳ θεσπέσίᾱͅ θεσπεσίῳ
Accusative θεσπέσιον θεσπέσίᾱν θεσπέσιον
Vocative θεσπέσιε θεσπέσίᾱ θεσπέσιον
DualN/A/V θεσπεσίω θεσπέσίᾱ θεσπεσίω
G/D θεσπεσίοιν θεσπέσίαιν θεσπεσίοιν
PluralNominative θεσπέσιοι θεσπέ́σιαι θεσπέσια
Genitive θεσπεσίων θεσπέσιῶν θεσπεσίων
Dative θεσπεσίοις θεσπέσίαις θεσπεσίοις
Accusative θεσπεσίους θεσπέσίᾱς θεσπέσια
Vocative θεσπέσιοι θεσπέ́σιαι θεσπέσια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective θεσπέσιος θεσπεσίου θεσπεσιώτερος θεσπεσιωτέρου θεσπεσιώτατος θεσπεσιωτάτου
Adverb θεσπεσίως θεσπεσιώτερον θεσπεσιώτατα

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

  • ἀμφὶ δὲ πάσασ ἔπρεσε θεσπεσίασ κεφαλὰσ δεινοῖο πελώρου. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 79:2)
  • ἐχρήσαντο δ’ αὐτῇ οἱ παλαιοὶ κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν, ὥσπερ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἐπιτηδεύμασι πᾶσιν οἱ δὲ νῦν τὰ σεμνὰ αὐτῆσ παραιτησάμενοι, ἀντὶ τῆσ ἀνδρώδουσ ἐκείνησ καὶ θεσπεσίασ καὶ θεοῖσ φίλησ κατεαγυῖαν καὶ κωτίλην εἰσ τὰ θέατρα εἰσάγουσι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 151)
  • πόθεν ὁρ́ουσ ἔχεισ θεσπεσίασ ὁδοῦ κακορρήμονασ; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 65)

Synonyms

  1. divinely sounding

  2. divine

  3. unspeakably

Related

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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