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μελοποιός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελοποιός μελοποιοῦ

Structure: μελοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/los II, poie/w

Sense

a maker of songs, a lyric poet
tuneful

Declension

Second declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	μελοποιός	μελοποιώ	μελοποιοί
Genitive	μελοποιοῦ	μελοποιοῖν	μελοποιῶν
Dative	μελοποιῷ	μελοποιοῖν	μελοποιοῖς
Accusative	μελοποιόν	μελοποιώ	μελοποιούς
Vocative	μελοποιέ	μελοποιώ	μελοποιοί

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

Σιμόεντοσ ἡμένα κοίτασ φοινίασ ὑμνεῖ πολυχορδοτάτᾳ γήρυϊ παιδολέτωρ μελοποιὸν ἀηδονὶσ μέριμναν. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 12)
καὶ μὴν ἔχω γ’ οἷσ αὐτὸν ἀποδείξω κακὸν μελοποιὸν ὄντα καὶ ποιοῦντα ταὔτ’ ἀεί. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:40)
ἀγλαίζεται δὲ καὶ μουσικᾶσ ἐν ἀώτῳ οἱᾶ παίζομεν φίλαν ἄνδρεσ ἀμφὶ θαμὰ τράπεζαν, κατὰ τὸν Θηβαῖον μελοποιόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4 4:4)
λέγεται δὲ τῶν μὲν πάνυ παλαιῶν Ἄκαστον φθειριάσαντα τὸν Πελίου τελευτῆσαι, τῶν δὲ ὑστέρων Ἀλκμᾶνα τὸν μελοποιὸν καὶ Φερεκύδην τὸν θεολόγον καὶ Καλλισθένη τὸν Ὀλύνθιον ἐν εἱρκτῇ φρουρούμενον, ἔτι δὲ Μούκιον τὸν νομικόν. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 36 3:4)
ὁμοίωσ δὲ τούτοισ χρήσασθαι τοῖσ Πελασγικοῖσ γράμμασι τὸν Ὀρφέα καὶ Προναπίδην τὸν Ὁμήρου διδάσκαλον, εὐφυῆ γεγονότα μελοποιόν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 67 5:1)

Synonyms

a maker of songs
- ἀοιδοθέτης (a lyric poet)
tuneful
- μέλος (tune)
- μέλισμα (a song, a tune)

παρῳδία (parody)
Ἀριστοφάνειος (of Aristophanes)
ὑπόρχημα (a hyporcheme or choral hymn to Apollo)
Στησίχορος (establishing)
ἀγαλματοποιός (a maker of statues)
χαμαιλέων (chameleon)
θεολόγος (one who speaks of God and the divine nature)
παρῳδός (singing indirectly)
λυσιῳδός (one who played women's characters in male attire)
μελοποιία (a making of lyric poems or music)
Ἑρμιονεύς (an inhabitant of Hermione)
ἐπικήδειος (of or at a burial)
Ἰαστί (in Ionic fashion)
τραγῳδιογράφος (writing tragedies)
πολυθρύλητος (much-spoken-of)
ἰαμβοποιός (a writer of iambics)
θηριακός (of wild or venomous beasts)
νέκυια (by which ghosts were called up and questioned)
ἐποποιός (an epic poet)
ἀρτέμων (a foresail)
κράντωρ ()
Κέρκωψ (the Cercopes)
λυρικός (of or for the lyre)
κιθαρῳδία (a singing to the cithara)
ἀξιόνικος (worthy of victory)
Ἀλεξανδρεύς (An Alexandrian)
Ῥοδιακός (Rhodian)
διελέγχω (to refute utterly)
ποιήτρια (a poetess)
διαβόητος (noised abroad)

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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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Sense

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a maker of songs

tuneful

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