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καλλιφωνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλλιφωνία

Structure: καλλιφωνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from kalli/fwnos

Sense

  1. beauty of sound

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καλλιφωνία καλλιφωνίᾱ καλλιφωνίαι
Genitive καλλιφωνίᾱς καλλιφωνίαιν καλλιφωνιῶν
Dative καλλιφωνίᾱͅ καλλιφωνίαιν καλλιφωνίαις
Accusative καλλιφωνίᾱν καλλιφωνίᾱ καλλιφωνίᾱς
Vocative καλλιφωνίᾱ καλλιφωνίᾱ καλλιφωνίαι

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

  • μία μὲν δή σοι, ὦ Λυκῖνε, καλλιφωνίασ αὕτη καὶ ᾠδῆσ εἰκών, ὡσ ἄν τισ ἐπὶ τὸ ἔλαττον εἰκάσειεν. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 15:3)

Synonyms

  1. beauty of sound

Similar forms

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

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