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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

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

  • οὐδ’ αὐτά, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, ἀχρεῖα ᾄσματα καὶ αὐλήματα. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 23:9)
  • πολλοὶ δὲ σφίσι παρεστεῶτεσ ἐπαυλέουσι, πολλοὶ δὲ τύμπανα παταγέουσιν, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀείδουσιν ἔνθεα καὶ ἱρὰ ᾄσματα. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 50:2)
  • τὰ γοῦν τοῖσ χοροῖσ γραφόμενα τούτοισ ᾄσματα ὑπορχήματα ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ ἐμπέπληστο τῶν τοιούτων ἡ λύρα. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 16:3)
  • ἓν γάρ τι καὶ τοῦτο τῶν ἄλλων καλλωπισμάτων αὐταῖσ δοκεῖ, ἢν λέγηται ὡσ πεπαιδευμέναι τὲ εἰσιν καὶ φιλόσοφοι καὶ ποιοῦσιν ᾄσματα οὐ πολὺ τῆσ Σαπφοῦσ ἀποδέοντα ‐ διὰ δὴ ταῦτα μισθωτοὺσ καὶ αὗται περιάγονται ῥήτορασ καὶ γραμματικοὺσ καὶ φιλοσόφουσ, ἀκροῶνται δ’ αὐτῶν ‐ πηνίκα; (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 36:3)
  • τοιαῦτ’ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἀκόλαστ’ ᾄσματα. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode5)

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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