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δῖος , δῖα^ (Hom., v. infr.), δῖον, fem. δία_ in E.Rh.226 (lyr.), IT404 (lyr.) (
A.“δίη” Hes.Th.260 codd.); fem. “δῖος” E.Ba.599 (anap.):—in Ep., heavenly, “δ. γένος” Il.9.538, etc., used by Hom.,
1. of goddesses, “δῖα θεά” 10.290; more freq. δῖα θεάων, with superl. force, 18.388, 19.6, etc.; “δαίμονα δῖον” Hes.Th.991.
2. of illustrious men or women, noble, Il.2.221, etc.; δῖα γυναικῶν noblest of women, Od.4.305; excellent, “δ. ὑφορβός” 16.20, al.
3. of nations, etc., “δῖοι Ἀχαιοί” Il. 5.451; “δ. Πελασγοί” Od.19.177; “δ. ἑταῖροι” Il.5.692; of cities, as Elis, 2.615; Lacedaemon, Od.3.326.
4. of a noble horse, Il.8.185, 23.346.
5. of things, esp. of the powers of nature, divine, awful, marvellous, αἰθέρος ἐκ δίης, εἰς ἅλα δῖαν, χθὼν δῖα, Il.16.365, 1.141, 14.347, cf. Emp.109.2; “δῖον πῦρ” E.Alc.5, etc.; “δῖα Χάρυβδις” Od.12.104.
II. first in Trag. as Adj. of “Ζεύς, Δ. βούλευμα” A.Pr.619; Δ. ὄμμα, στόμα, ib.654, 1033, etc. (For d[icaron]v-[icaron]yos, cf. Skt. div-yá-'heavenly' (freq. trisyll.), but fem. δῖα for div-ya.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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