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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

  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ ἀπορῆσαι ἄξιον, τί δήποτε προειπὼν ὑπὲρ σαυτοῦ, ὡσ διὰ τοῦτο λάβοισ τὴν θεσπέσιον ἐκείνην ᾠδὴν παρὰ τῶν θεῶν, ὅπωσ κλείοισ καὶ ὑμνοίησ τὰ παρεληλυθότα καὶ θεσπίζοισ τὰ ἐσόμενα, θάτερον μὲν καὶ πάνυ ἐντελῶσ ἐξενήνοχασ θεῶν τε γενέσεισ διηγούμενοσ ἄχρι καὶ τῶν πρώτων ἐκείνων, χάουσ καὶ γῆσ καὶ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἔρωτοσ, ἔτι δὲ γυναικῶν ἀρετὰσ καὶ παραινέσεισ γεωργικάσ, καὶ ὅσα περὶ Πλειάδων καὶ ὅσα περὶ καιρῶν ἀρότου καὶ ἀμήτου καὶ πλοῦ καὶ ὅλωσ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων· (Lucian, 1:2)
  • καῦμα δὲ θεσπέσιον κάτεχεν Χάοσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 67:7)
  • θεσπέσιον γάρ τι καὶ τοῦτο. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 25:2)
  • λέγω δὲ ὡσ ἀπὸ τούτων γνωρίζοισ αὐτόν, μηδέ σε οὕτω θεσπέσιον χρῆμα καὶ φίλον Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ Χάρισι διαλάθοι, καίτοι τί φημὶ ; (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 11:2)
  • ἐπάγων τῷ λόγῳ διότι φύσιν ἔχει οὕτω γίγνεσθαι, τοῦ τε πυρετοῦ καὶ τοῦ οἰδήματοσ δεδιότοσ ἢ ὄνομα θεσπέσιον ἢ ῥῆσιν βαρβαρικὴν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ βουβῶνοσ δραπετεύοντοσ, ἔτι σοι γραῶν μῦθοι τὰ λεγόμενά ἐστι. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 9:5)
  • θεσπέσιόν τι χρῆμα, ὦ Λυκῖνε, φὴσ καὶ διιπετὲσ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ, οἱο͂́ν τι τῶν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ γένοιτο. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 9:3)

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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