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κιθαριστύς?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: kitharistys

Principal Part: κιθαριστύς κιθαριστύος

Structure: κιθαριστυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: κιθαρίζω

Sense

  1. the art of playing the cithara

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κιθαριστύς κιθαριστύε κιθαριστύες
Genitive κιθαριστύος κιθαριστύοιν κιθαριστύων
Dative κιθαριστύϊ κιθαριστύοιν κιθαριστύσι(ν)
Accusative κιθαριστύν κιθαριστύε κιθαριστύας
Vocative κιθαριστύ κιθαριστύε κιθαριστύες

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

  • αἳ δὲ χολωσάμεναι πηρὸν θέσαν, αὐτὰρ ἀοιδὴν θεσπεσίην ἀφέλοντο καὶ ἐκλέλαθον κιθαριστύν: (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 55:3)
  • διὸ καὶ τὰς θεὰς αὐτῷ χολωθείσας τήν τε μουσικὴν ἀφελέσθαι καὶ πηρῶσαι τὸν ἄνδρα, καθάπερ καὶ τὸν Ὅμηρον τούτοις προσμαρτυρεῖν λέγοντα ἔνθα τε Μοῦσαι ἀντόμεναι Θάμυριν τὸν Θρήικα παῦσαν ἀοιδῆς, καὶ ἔτι αἱ δὲ χολωσάμεναι πηρὸν θέσαν, αὐτὰρ ἀοιδὴν θεσπεσίην ἀφέλοντο καὶ ἐκλέλαθον κιθαριστύν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 67 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. the art of playing the cithara

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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