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

  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ λαμβάνει τισ αὐτὸν ἐραστὴσ γόησ τῶν μαγείασ καὶ ἐπῳδὰσ θεσπεσίουσ ὑπισχνουμένων καὶ χάριτασ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἐρωτικοῖσ καὶ ἐπαγωγὰσ τοῖσ ἐχθροῖσ καὶ θησαυρῶν ἀναπομπὰσ καὶ κλήρων διαδοχάσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 5:2)
  • τοῖχοι δ’ ἀντιπέρηθεν ἀμετμήτοισι κελεύθοισ θεσπεσίουσ λειμῶνασ ἀνεζώσαντο μετάλλων, οὓσ φύσισ ἀνθήσασα μέσοισ ἐνὶ βένθεσι πέτρησ ἀλγλαϊήν ἔκλεπτε, Θεοῦ δ’ ἐφύλασσε μελάθροισ, δῶρον Ιοὐλιανῆσ, ἵνα θέσκελα ἔργα τελέσσῃ ἀχράντοισ κραδίησ ὑπὸ νεύμασι ταῦτα καμοῦσα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 10 12:1)

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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