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βάρβιτος

Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάρβιτος βαρβίτου

Structure: βαρβιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. and Oriental word.

Sense

  1. barbitos

Declension

Second 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

  • ἡ λύρα δὲ ἄλλωσ κτῆμα ἦν, οὐδὲν ἄμεινον τῶν ἄλλων βαρβίτων. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 12:4)
  • τί βάρβιτοσ λαλεῖ κροκωτῷ; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics7)
  • καὶ λόγῳ κρούων ἕκαστον, ὡσ πέφυκεν ἐμμελὲσ ὑπηχεῖν ἤδη μέντοι συμβούλῳ Πλάτωνι χρησάμενοσ, πηκτίδασ, σαμβύκασ καὶ ψαλτήρια πολύφθογγα καὶ βαρβίτουσ καὶ τρίγωνα παραπέμψασ, τὴν λύραν καὶ τὴν κιθάραν προτιμήσει· (Plutarch, De unius in republica dominatione, chapter, section 4 1:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ τὸ ὄργανον Νεάνθησ ὁ Κυζικηνὸσ ἐν α ̔̀ Ὥρων εὑρ́ημα εἶναι λέγει Ἰβύκου τοῦ Ῥηγίνου ποιητοῦ, ὡσ καὶ Ἀνακρέοντοσ τὸ βάρβιτον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 77 2:15)
  • οἶδα δὲ ὅτι καὶ μάγαδισ ὄργανόν ἐστιν ἐντατὸν καθάπερ καὶ κιθάρα, λύρα, βάρβιτον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 80 2:4)
  • "καὶ γὰρ βάρβιτοσ ἢ βάρμοσ καὶ ἄλλα πλείονα τὰ μὲν ἔγχορδα, τὰ δὲ ἔνηχα κατεσκεύαζον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 38 1:6)
  • καὶ τῶν ὀργάνων ἔνια βαρβάρωσ ὠνόμασται νάβλασ καὶ σαμβύκη καὶ βάρβιτοσ καὶ μαγάδισ καὶ ἄλλα πλείω. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 28:7)

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