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θεοδόχος

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Οὔτοι συνέχθειν, ἀλλὰ συμφιλεῖν ἔφυν → I was not born to hate, but to love.

Sophocles, Antigone, 523

German (Pape)

[Seite 1195] = θεοδέγμων, K. S.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

θεοδόχος: -ον, δεχομένη ἢ δεξαμένη τὸν θεόν, ἐπὶ τῆς Παρθένου, Ἐκκλ.

Greek Monolingual

θεοδόχος και θειοδόχος, -ον (AM)
αυτός που δέχεται ή δέχθηκε τον θεό («ἔχουσα ή Παρθένος θεοδόχον τήν μήτραν», Ακ. Ύμν.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < θεο- + -δοχος (< δέχομαι), πρβλ. ζωο-δόχος, ξενο-δόχος].