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θείαις (theiais)

θείαις is an Ancient Greek form of θεία, meaning “aunt”. It is the dative plural feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of θεῖοσ, “(garbled form; cf. θεῖος, divine)”.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Nicias 23.4: ὀψὲ δʼ ἡ Πλάτωνος ἐκλάμψασα δόξα διὰ τὸν βίον τοῦ ἀνδρός, καὶ ὅτι ταῖς θείαις καὶ κυριωτέραις ἀρχαῖς ὑπέταξε τὰς φυσικὰς ἀνάγκας, ἀφεῖλε τὴν τῶν λόγων τούτων διαβολήν, καὶ τοῖς μαθήμασιν …

All forms of θεία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.