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κιθαριστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθαριστικός κιθαριστική κιθαριστικόν

Structure: κιθαριστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kiqaristh/s

Sense

  1. skilled in harp-playing

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Πτολεμαίου δὲ τοῦ βασιλέωσ περὶ κιθαριστικῆσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν διαλεγομένου φιλονικότερον, ’ ἕτερόν ἐστιν εἶπεν, ̔ ὦ βασιλεῦ, σκῆπτρον, ἕτερον δὲ πλῆκτρον, ὥσ φησι Καπίτων ὁ ἐποποιὸσ ἐν δ# τῶν πρὸσ Φιλόπαππον ὑπομνημάτων, παρακληθεὶσ δ’ ἀκοῦσαί ποτε κιθαρῳδοῦ μετὰ τὴν ἀκρόασιν ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 42 3:1)
  • "οὐ μόνη δὲ κιθάρα Ἀπόλλωνοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐλητικῆσ καὶ κιθαριστικῆσ εὑρετὴσ ὁ θεόσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 14 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. skilled in harp-playing

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

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