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μελοποιία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελοποιία

Structure: μελοποιι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from melopoio/s

Sense

  1. a making of lyric poems or music: the theory of music, its practice

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μελοποιία μελοποιίᾱ μελοποιίαι
Genitive μελοποιίᾱς μελοποιίαιν μελοποιιῶν
Dative μελοποιίᾱͅ μελοποιίαιν μελοποιίαις
Accusative μελοποιίᾱν μελοποιίᾱ μελοποιίᾱς
Vocative μελοποιίᾱ μελοποιίᾱ μελοποιίαι

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

  • "γένη γάρ τινα καὶ εἴδη ῥυθμῶν προσεξευρέθη, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ μελοποιιῶν τε καὶ ῥυθμοποιιῶν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 122)
  • "ἐπεὶ καὶ περὶ αὐτῶν τῶν Δωρίων μελοποιιῶν ἀπορεῖται, πότερόν ἐστι διαγνωστικὴ ἡ ἁρμονικὴ πραγματεία, καθάπερ τινὲσ οἰόνται, τῶν Δωρίων, ἢ οὔ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3319)

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

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