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κωμῳδοποιός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωμῳδοποιός κωμῳδοποιοῦ

Structure: κωμῳδοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a maker of comedies, comic poet

Declension

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

  • "καὶ ἄλλοι δὲ κωμῳδοποιοὶ ἔδειξαν τὴν ἀτοπίαν τῶν μετὰ ταῦτα τὴν μουσικὴν κατακεκερματικότων. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3030)
  • εἰσὶν γὰρ καὶ μεταφοραὶ ἀπρεπεῖσ, αἱ μὲν διὰ τὸ γελοῖον χρῶνται γὰρ καὶ οἱ κωμῳδοποιοὶ μεταφοραῖσ, αἱ δὲ διὰ τὸ σεμνὸν ἄγαν καὶ τραγικόν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 3 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a maker of comedies

Related

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

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