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κιθαρῳδικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κιθαρῳδικός κιθαρῳδική κιθαρῳδικόν

Structure: κιθαρῳδικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kiqarw|do/s

Sense

  1. of or for 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

  • μὴ πρίν γ’ <ἂν> ἀκούσῃσ χἀτέραν στάσιν μελῶν ἐκ τῶν κιθαρῳδικῶν νόμων εἰργασμένην. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric9)
  • Ἡρακλείδησ δ’ ἐν τῇ Συναγωγῇ τῶν ἐν μουσικῇ τὴν κιθαρῳδίαν καὶ τὴν κιθαρῳδικὴν ποίησιν πρῶτόν φησιν Ἀμφίονα ἐπινοῆσαι τὸν Διὸσ καὶ Ἀντιόπησ, τοῦ πατρὸσ δηλονότι διδάξαντοσ αὐτόν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3 1:4)
  • "καὶ γὰρ τὸν Τέρπανδρον ἔφη κιθαρῳδικῶν ποιητὴν ὄντα νόμων, κατὰ νόμον ἕκαστον τοῖσ ἔπεσι τοῖσ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τοῖσ Ὁμήρου μέλη περιτιθέντα ᾄδειν ἐν τοῖσ ἀγῶσιν ἀποφῆναι δὲ τοῦτον λέγει ὀνόματα πρῶτον τοῖσ κιθαρῳδικοῖσ νόμοισ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3 1:13)
  • ἐκεῖνοσ γοῦν τοὺσ κιθαρῳδικοὺσ πρότεροσ ὠνόμασε, Βοιώτιόν τινα καὶ Αἰόλιον Τροχαῖόν τε καὶ Ὀξὺν Κηπίωνά τε καὶ Τερπάνδρειον καλῶν, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ Τετραοίδιον. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 4 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for harp-playing

Related

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

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