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θέσπις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θέσπις θέσπιος

Structure: θεσπι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qeo/s, e)/spon ei)=pon, cf. qespe/sios

Sense

  1. having words from God, inspired
  2. divine, wondrous, awful

Declension

Third declension

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

  • κἂν μὲν θέσπιε κοῦρε ποιῇσ ταῦθ’ ὡσ ἐπιτέλλω, αἰετὸσ ἐν νεφέλῃσι γενήσεαι· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:9)

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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