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ᾆσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ᾆσμα ᾀσματος

Structure: ᾀσματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)/idw

Sense

  1. a song, a lyric ode, lay

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ᾆσμα ᾴ̓σματε ᾴ̓σματα
Genitive ᾴ̓σματος ᾀσμάτοιν ᾀσμάτων
Dative ᾴ̓σματι ᾀσμάτοιν ᾴ̓σμασιν*
Accusative ᾆσμα ᾴ̓σματε ᾴ̓σματα
Vocative ᾴ̓σμα ᾴ̓σματε ᾴ̓σματα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοῖσ ᾄσμασιν καὶ καταπλεύσαντασ ἐπὶ πολὺ κατεῖχον, καὶ ὅλωσ τὸ ἔργον αὐτῶν ἐδεῖτό τινοσ διατριβῆσ, καὶ πού τισ αὐτὰσ καὶ παρέπλευσε καὶ τοῦ μέλουσ παρήκουσε· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 19:3)
  • ἐπ’ ἐκεῖνον μεταβήσεται ἡ ψυχὴ μακρὰ χαίρειν φράσασα τοῖσ ἐκείνων ᾅσμασιν· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 19:8)
  • ἀνὴρ δὲ τίσ ὢν ὅλωσ,^ καὶ ταῦτα παιδείᾳ σύντροφοσ καὶ φιλοσοφίᾳ τὰ μέτρια ὡμιληκώσ, ἀφέμενοσ, ὦ Λυκῖνε, τοῦ περὶ τὰ βελτίω σπουδάζειν καὶ τοῖσ παλαιοῖσ συνεῖναι κάθηται καταυλούμενοσ, θηλυδρίαν ἄνθρωπον ὁρῶν ἐσθῆσι μαλακαῖσ καὶ ᾄσμασιν ἀκολάστοισ ἐναβρυνόμενον καὶ μιμούμενον ἐρωτικὰ γύναια, τῶν πάλαι τὰσ μαχλοτάτασ, Φαίδρασ καὶ Παρθενόπασ καὶ Ῥοδόπασ τινάσ, καὶ ταῦτα πάντα ὑπὸ κρούμασιν καὶ τερετίσμασι καὶ ποδῶν κτύπῳ, καταγέλαστα ὡσ ἀληθῶσ πράγματα καὶ ἥκιστα ἐλευθέρῳ ἀνδρὶ καὶ οἱῴ σοὶ πρέποντα ; (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a song

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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