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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

  • ἀλλ’ ἔτι οἱ κατὰ δώματ’ ἀκήρατοσ ἠε͂ν ἄκοιτισ ὠδίνων, Μέροποσ Περκωσίου ἐκγεγαυῖα, Κλείτη ἐυπλόκαμοσ, τὴν μὲν νέον ἐξέτι πατρὸσ θεσπεσίοισ ἕδνοισιν ἀνήγαγεν ἀντιπέρηθεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 17:5)
  • εἰσ Κῦρον καὶ Ιωἄννην Κύρῳ, ἀκεστορίησ πανυπέρτατα μέτρα λαχόντι, καὶ τῷ Ιωἄννῃ, μάρτυσι θεσπεσίοισ, Σωφρόνιοσ, βλεφάρων ψυχαλγέα νοῦσον ἀλύξασ, βαιὸν ἀμειβόμενοσ τήνδ’ ἀνέθηκε βίβλον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 901)
  • ὧν πολλοὺσ μὲν δὴ ἐξέδωκα προδίκῳ, πολλοὺσ δὲ ἄλλοισ σοφοῖσ τε καὶ θεσπεσίοισ ἀνδράσι. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 58:3)

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.

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