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κιθάρισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθάρισμα κιθάρισματος

Structure: κιθαρισματ (Stem)

Etym.: kiqari/zw

Sense

  1. that which is played on the cithara, a piece of music for it

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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ, ἐπειδὰν κιθαρίζειν μάθωσιν, ἄλλων αὖ ποιητῶν ἀγαθῶν ποιήματα διδάσκουσι μελοποιῶν, εἰσ τὰ κιθαρίσματα ἐντείνοντεσ, καὶ τοὺσ ῥυθμούσ τε καὶ τὰσ ἁρμονίασ ἀναγκάζουσιν οἰκειοῦσθαι ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ τῶν παίδων, ἵνα ἡμερώτεροί τε ὦσιν, καὶ εὐρυθμότεροι καὶ εὐαρμοστότεροι γιγνόμενοι χρήσιμοι ὦσιν εἰσ τὸ λέγειν τε καὶ πράττειν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 137:2)

Synonyms

  1. that which is played on the cithara

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

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