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μελετητήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελετητήριον μελετητήριου

Structure: μελετητηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: meleta/w

Sense

  1. a place for practice

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

  • "ὡσ δ’ εὐρύθμωσ λαβὼν τὸ μελετητήριον εἶτ’ ἐσχεδίασε δριμέωσ εν παπαῖ, μεστὸσ γενόμενοσ πρὸσ τὸν Ἀργᾶν βούλομαι κωδωνίσασ πέμψαι σ1’ ἀγωνιούμενον, ἵνα καὶ σὺ νικᾷσ τοὺσ σοφιστάσ, ὦ φίλε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:49)
  • ἐκ τούτου κατάγειον μὲν οἰκοδομῆσαι μελετητήριον, ὃ δὴ διεσῴζετο καὶ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ, ἐνταῦθα δὲ πάντωσ μὲν ἑκάστησ ἡμέρασ κατιόντα πλάττειν τὴν ὑπόκρισιν καὶ διαπονεῖν τὴν φωνήν, πολλάκισ δὲ καὶ μῆνασ ἑξῆσ δύο καὶ τρεῖσ συνάπτειν, ξυρούμενον τῆσ κεφαλῆσ θάτερον μέροσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηδὲ βουλομένῳ πάνυ προελθεῖν ἐνδέχεσθαι δι’ αἰσχύνην. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 7 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a place for practice

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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