Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • καὶ πῶσ ἂν ἔγωγε, ὦ θεσπέσιε καὶ Ὀλύμπιε Μένιππε, γεννητὸσ αὐτὸσ καὶ ἐπίγειοσ ὢν ἀπιστεῖν δυναίμην ὑπερνεφέλῳ ἀνδρὶ καὶ ἵνα καθ’ Ὅμηρον εἴπω τῶν Οὐρανιώνων ἑνί; (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 2:6)
  • "χαῖρε, Θεσπέσιε. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 20:3)

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.

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION