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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

  • ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ πῦρ ἀνακαύσασ ἐπέθηκε φέρων αὐτῇ δορᾷ τὴν αἶγα καὶ αὐτοῖσ ἐρίοισ τὸ πρόβατον ἡ δὲ κνῖσα θεσπέσιοσ καὶ ἱεροπρεπὴσ χωρεῖ ἄνω καὶ εἰσ αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανὸν ἠρέμα διασκίδναται. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 13:4)
  • ἀλλ’ ἵλεωσ μὲν ὁ Πυθαγόρασ εἰή, σοφὸσ ἀνήρ καὶ τὴν γνώμην θεσπέσιοσ, εἰ δὲ κατὰ τοῦτον ἐγεγένητο, παῖσ ἂν εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι πρὸσ αὐτὸν εἶναι; (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 4:5)
  • ὁ μέν γε θεσπέσιοσ Πυθαγόρασ, εἰ καὶ μηδὲν αὐτὸσ ἴδιον ἡμῖν καταλιπεῖν τῶν αὐτοῦ ἠξίωσεν, ὅσον Ὀκέλλῳ τῷ Λευκανῷ καὶ Ἀρχύτᾳ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ὁμιληταῖσ αὐτοῦ τεκμαίρεσθαι, οὔτε τὸ χαίρειν οὔτε τὸ εὖ πράττειν προὔγραφεν, ἀλλ̓ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑγιαίνειν ἄρχεσθαι ἐκέλευεν· (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 10:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀνθηρῶν λειμώνων φύλλων <τ’> ἐν κόλποισ ναίω, ἡνίκ’ ἂν ὁ θεσπέσιοσ ὀξὺ μέλοσ ἀχέτασ θάλπεσι μεσημβρινοῖσ ἡλιομανὴσ βοᾷ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antistrophe 13)
  • θαυμάσαντοσ δ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ φήσαντοσ, ὡσ οὐ Θεσπέσιοσ ἀλλ’ Ἀριδαῖόσ ἐστι· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 20:4)

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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