θειότερον (theioteron)

θειότερον is an Ancient Greek form of θεῖος, meaning “divine; (noun) uncle”. It is the accusative singular neuter comparative adjective.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 25: … αὶ παιάνων, οὐδὲ πένθους ἀλλὰ μνήμης; εὐκλεοῦς, οὐδὲ δακρύων ἐπωδύνων ἀλλʼ ἐτείων ἀπαρχῶν, εἴ γʼ ὁ μετηλλαχὼς θειότερόν τινα βίον μετείληφεν, ἀπαλλαγεὶς τῆς τοῦ σώματος λατρείας καὶ τῶν ἀτρύτων τούτων φροντίδων τε καὶ συμφορῶν, ἃ …

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 68: … σι τὴν περσέαν, ὅτι καρδίᾳ μὲν ὁ καρπὸς αὐτῆς, γλώττῃ δὲ τὸ φύλλον ἔοικεν. οὐδὲν γὰρ ὧν ἄνθρωπος ἔχειν πέφυκε θειότερον λόγου καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ περὶ θεῶν, οὐδὲ μείζονα ῥοπὴν ἔχει πρὸς εὐδαιμονίαν. διὸ τῷ μὲν εἰς τὸ χρηστήριον ἐνταῦ …

All forms of θεῖος (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.