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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 θάτερον δὲ τῶν ᾀσμάτων ‐ δύο γὰρ ᾄδεται ‐ διδασκαλίαν ἔχει ὡσ χρὴ ὀρχεῖσθαι. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 11:2)
  • ἐσθῆτι σηρικῇ καὶ προσωπείῳ εὐπρεπεῖ, αὐλῷ τε καὶ τερετίσμασι καὶ τῇ τῶν ᾀδόντων εὐφωνίᾳ, οἷσ κοσμεῖσθαι μηδὲν ὂν τὸ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ πρᾶγμα, ὁ τότε κατὰ τὸν Νέρωνα εὐδοκιμῶν ὀρχηστήσ, οὐκ ἀσύνετοσ, ὥσ φασιν, ἀλλ’ εἰ καί τισ ἄλλοσ ἔν τε ἱστορίασ μνήμῃ καὶ κινήσεωσ κάλλει διενεγκών, ἐδεήθη τοῦ Δημητρίου εὐγνωμονεστάτην, οἶμαι, τὴν δέησιν, ἰδεῖν ὀρχούμενον, ἔπειτα κατηγορεῖν αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑπέσχετό γε ἄνευ αὐλοῦ καὶ ᾀσμάτων ἐπιδείξεσθαι αὐτῷ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 63:3)
  • καίτοι τῆσ μὲν ψυχῆσ προεῖπον τὰ πλεῖστα μνημονικόν τε ’γάρ εἶναι ^ καὶ εὐφυᾶ καὶ συνετὸν καὶ ὀξὺν ἐπινοῆσαι καὶ καιροῦ μάλιστα ἐστοχάσθαι φημὶ δεῖν αὐτόν, ἔτι δὲ κριτικόν τε ποιημάτων καὶ ᾀσμάτων καὶ μελῶν τῶν ἀρίστων διαγνωστικὸν καὶ τῶν κακῶσ πεποιημένων ἐλεγκτικόν . (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 74:2)
  • ἡδέωσ δ’ ἄν μοι δοκεῖσ καὶ ποιητὴσ γενέσθαι τῶν ἐρωτικῶν ᾀσμάτων ἢ κἂν ἄλλου ποιήσαντοσ δύνασθαι ᾄδειν ἀξίωσ· (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 27:3)
  • τί ποτε ὁ Πίνδαρόσ φησι περὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπαινῶν ‐ ἀνάμνησον γάρ με, εἴπερ οἶσθα ‐ ὁπότε ὕδωρ ἄριστον εἰπὼν εἶτα τὸ χρυσίον θαυμάζει, εὖ ποιῶν, ἐν ἀρχῇ εὐθὺσ τοῦ καλλίστου τῶν ᾀσμάτων ἁπάντων; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 7:2)
  • ΑΣΜΑ ἀσμάτων, ὅ ἐστι τῷ Σαλωμών. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 1:1)

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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