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κιθαριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθαριστής κιθαριστοῦ

Structure: κιθαριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kiqari/zw

Sense

  1. a player on the cithara

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κιθαριστής κιθαριστᾱ́ κιθαρισταί
Genitive κιθαριστοῦ κιθαρισταῖν κιθαριστῶν
Dative κιθαριστῇ κιθαρισταῖν κιθαρισταῖς
Accusative κιθαριστήν κιθαριστᾱ́ κιθαριστᾱ́ς
Vocative κιθαριστά κιθαριστᾱ́ κιθαρισταί

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

  • ἐκ γάρ τοι Μουσέων καὶ ἑκηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἄνδρεσ ἀοιδοὶ ἐάσιν ἐπὶ χθόνα καὶ κιθαρισταί, ἐκ δὲ Διὸσ βασιλῆεσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 10:10)
  • μεθ’ ἃσ χορὸσ ἐπόμπευσεν ἀνδρῶν ἑξακοσίων ἐν οἷσ κιθαρισταὶ συνεφώνουν τριακόσιοι, ἐπιχρύσουσ ἔχοντεσ ὅλασ κιθάρασ καὶ στεφάνουσ χρυσοῦσ, μεθ’ οὓσ ταῦροι διῆλθον δισχίλιοι ὁμοιοχρώματοι χρυσόκερῳ, προμετωπίδασ χρυσᾶσ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον στεφάνουσ ὁρ́μουσ τε καὶ αἰγίδασ πρὸ τῶν στηθῶν ἔχοντεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 31 3:2)
  • ἐκ γὰρ Μουσάων καὶ ἑκηβόλου Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἄνδρεσ ἀοιδοὶ ἐάσιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ καὶ κιθαρισταί, ἐκ δὲ Διὸσ βασιλῆεσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:2)
  • ὦ ἄμφω θνητοῖσι βοηθόοι, ὦ φίλοι ἄμφω, ἱππῆεσ κιθαρισταί, ἀεθλητῆρεσ ἀοιδοί· (Theocritus, Idylls, 11)
  • ἃ γὰρ δεῖ μαθόντασ ποιεῖν, ταῦτα ποιοῦντεσ μανθάνομεν, οἱο͂ν οἰκοδομοῦντεσ οἰκοδόμοι γίνονται καὶ κιθαρίζοντεσ κιθαρισταί· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 5:2)

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

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