- δῖος
- δῖοςGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `belonging to heaven, godlike' (Il.), also `belonging to Zeus' (trag.); often as month name (Thessaly, Macedonia etc.).Dialectal forms: Myc. diwijo \/diwjos\/, diujo \/diujos\/; diwija, diuja \/diwja\/.Origin: IE [Indo-European] [183] *dieu- `heaven'Etymology: Old adjective, identical with Skt. div(i)yá- `heavenly', Lat. dīus `godlike', IE *diu(i)i̯o-; s. Ζεύς. The adjective may replace the gen. of the basic word, s. Schwyzer-Debrunner 176ff., also Löfstedt Syntactica 1, 107ff. - Beside masculine *δίϜ-ι̯ος the feminin derivation was δῖα \< *δίϜ-ι̯ᾰ, first in substantival function `daughter of heaven, goddess', e. g. δῖα γυναικῶν `goddess among women'; from there δῖα θεάων etc.; s. Schwyzer-Debrunner 116.Page in Frisk: 1,396-397
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.