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θεῖος
θεῖος
See also: θείος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- 5th BC Attic: IPA: /tʰe᷇ː.os/
- 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /ˈtʰi.os/
- 4th AD Koine: IPA: /ˈθi.os/
- 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /ˈθi.os/
- 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /ˈθi.os/
Adjective
θεῖος • (theîos) m (feminine θείᾱ, neuter θεῖον); first/second declension
- Of or from the gods or God, divine
- (religion) Belonging or sacred to a god, holy
- Superhuman (used of heroic figures)
- Imperial
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | θεῖος | θείᾱ | θεῖον | θείω | θείᾱ | θείω | θεῖοι | θεῖαι | θεῖᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | θείου | θείᾱς | θείου | θείοιν | θείαιν | θείοιν | θείων | θείων | θείων | ||||
| Dative | θείῳ | θείᾳ | θείῳ | θείοιν | θείαιν | θείοιν | θείοις | θείαις | θείοις | ||||
| Accusative | θεῖον | θείᾱν | θεῖον | θείω | θείᾱ | θείω | θείους | θείᾱς | θεῖᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | θεῖε | θείᾱ | θεῖον | θείω | θείᾱ | θείω | θεῖοι | θεῖαι | θεῖᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| θείως | θειότερος | θειότᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (of the gods): θεϊκός (theïkós), θεϊνός (theïnós)
Derived terms
- θεῖον (theîon)
Descendants
- Greek: θείος (theíos)
References
- (A) θεῖος (A) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck”). Compare θῆλυς (thêlus, “female”), θηλή (thēlḗ, “teat”), τίτθη (títthē, “nurse”), τήθη (tḗthē, “grandmother”).
Noun
θεῖος • (theîos) m (genitive θείου); second declension
- the brother of one's father or mother, uncle
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ θεῖος | τὼ θείω | οἱ θεῖοι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ θείου | τοῖν θείοιν | τῶν θείων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ θείῳ | τοῖν θείοιν | τοῖς θείοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν θεῖον | τὼ θείω | τοὺς θείους | ||||||||||
| Vocative | θεῖε | θείω | θεῖοι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
References
- (B) θεῖος (B) in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θεῖος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- θεῖος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «θεῖος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «θεῖος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- θεῖος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G2304”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- celestial idem, page 120.
- divine idem, page 244.
- ethereal idem, page 284.
- god-like idem, page 365.
- heavenly idem, page 393.
- heaven-sent idem, page 393.
- miraculous idem, page 532.
- preternatural idem, page 638.
- spiritual idem, page 802.
- superhuman idem, page 839.
- supernatural idem, page 839.
- uncle idem, page 909.
- unearthly idem, page 916.
- weird idem, page 973.
- Gerhard Köbler, Indogermanisches Wörterbuch, p. 232