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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

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

  • "καὶ περιελὼν τὴν συντομίαν τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν ἐν τοῖσ ψιλοῖσ κιθαρισταῖσ χρώματά τε εὔχροα πρῶτοσ ἐκιθάρισε καὶ ἰάμβουσ καὶ μάγαδιν, τὸν καλούμενον συριγμόν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:29)
  • οὐκοῦν τοῦτο μέν, ἔφην ἐγώ, ἤδη μελέτησ δεῖται ὥσπερ τοῖσ κιθαρισταῖσ ἡ χείρ, ὅπωσ δύνηται ὑπηρετεῖν τῇ γνώμῃ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 17 8:6)
  • τοῖσ κιθαρισταῖσ μὲν τοίνυν ἡμᾶσ δοκῶ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν λόγων ἀναμνησθέντασ τὸ προσῆκον νεῖμαι τῆσ τε διδασκαλίασ ἅμα καὶ πάσησ τῆσ περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα παιδεύσεωσ. (Plato, Laws, book 7 150:4)

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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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