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φορμικτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορμικτής

Structure: φορμικτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a harper

Declension

First 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

  • προσεπιτέρπεται δ’ ὁ φορμικτὰσ Ἀπόλλων, ἕνεκα δόνακοσ, ὃν ὑπολύριον ἔνυδρον ἐν λίμναισ τρέφω. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue, trochees 1:6)
  • ἐξ Ἀπόλλωνοσ δὲ φορμικτὰσ ἀοιδᾶν πατὴρ ἔμολεν, εὐαίνητοσ, Ὀρφεύσ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 54:2)

Synonyms

  1. a harper

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

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