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θύσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θύσιμος θύσιμον

Structure: θυσιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/w

Sense

  1. fit for sacrifice

Declension

First/Second 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

  • "δεῖ γὰρ τὸ θύσιμον τῷ τε σώματι καὶ τῇ ψυχῇ καθαρὸν εἶναι καὶ ἀσινὲσ καὶ ἀδιάφθορον. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 493)
  • θύσιμον γὰρ οὐ φίλον εἶναι θεοῖσ, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον, ὅσα ψυχὰσ ἀνοσίων ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἀδίκων εἰσ ἕτερα μεταμορφουμένων σώματα συνείληφε. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 31 1:1)
  • ἰχθύων δὲ θύσιμοσ οὐδεὶσ οὐδ’ ἱερεύσιμόσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 13:2)
  • κτήνεά τε γὰρ τὰ θύσιμα πάντα τρισχίλια ἔθυσε, κλίνασ τε ἐπιχρύσουσ καὶ ἐπαργύρουσ καὶ φιάλασ χρυσέασ καὶ εἵματα πορφύρεα καὶ κιθῶνασ, νήσασ πυρὴν μεγάλην, κατέκαιε, ἐλπίζων τὸν θεὸν μᾶλλον τι τούτοισι ἀνακτήσεσθαι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 50 2:2)
  • πρῶτον δ’ αὐτοῖσ ἐκρίναμεν διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν παρασχεῖν εἰσ τὰσ θυσίασ σύνταξιν κτηνῶν τε θυσίμων καὶ οἴνου καὶ ἐλαίου καὶ λιβάνου ἀργυρίου μυριάδασ δύο καὶ σεμιδάλεωσ ἀρτάβασ ἱερᾶσ κατὰ τὸν ἐπιχώριον νόμον πυρῶν μεδίμνουσ χιλίουσ τετρακοσίουσ ἑξήκοντα καὶ ἁλῶν μεδίμνουσ τριακοσίουσ ἑβδομηκονταπέντε. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 162:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ θύσιμόσ ἐστιν αὑτηγί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:52)
  • πᾷ δ’ οὐχὶ θύσιμόσ ἐστι; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:54)

Synonyms

  1. fit for sacrifice

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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