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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

  • καὶ κλείσουσι θύρασ ἐν ἀγορᾷ, ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ φωνῆσ τῆσ ἀληθούσησ, καὶ ἀναστήσεται εἰσ φωνὴν τοῦ στρουθίου, καὶ ταπεινωθήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ θυγατέρεσ τοῦ ᾄσματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 12:4)
  • "’ Ἀναξανδρίδησ διδάσκων ποτὲ διθύραμβον Ἀθήνησιν εἰσῆλθεν ἐφ’ ἵππου καὶ ἀπήγγειλέν τι τῶν ἐκ τοῦ ᾄσματοσ, ἦν δὲ τὴν ὄψιν καλὸσ καὶ μέγασ καὶ κόμην ἔτρεφε καὶ ἐφόρει ἁλουργίδα καὶ κράσπεδα χρυσᾶ, πικρὸσ δ’ ὢν τὸ ἦθοσ ἐποίει τι τοιοῦτο περὶ τὰσ κωμῳδίασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 5:40)
  • ἐπίσταμαί τε γάρ, καὶ πάνυ μοι τυγχάνει μεμεληκὸσ τοῦ ᾄσματοσ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 244:2)
  • οἶσθα οὖν, ἔφη, ὅτι προιόντοσ τοῦ ᾄσματοσ λέγει που ‐ οὐδέ μοι ἐμμελέωσ τὸ Πιττάκειον νέμεται,καίτοι σοφοῦ παρὰ φωτὸσ εἰρημένον· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 246:2)
  • ἐγὼ τοίνυν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ἅ γέ μοι δοκεῖ περὶ τοῦ ᾄσματοσ τούτου, πειράσομαι ὑμῖν διεξελθεῖν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 277:1)

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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