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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

  1. a maker of songs, a lyric poet
  2. tuneful

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

  • Ἀργανθώνιοσ μὲν οὖν Ταρτησσίων βασιλεὺσ πεντήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν ἔτη βιῶναι λέγεται, ὡσ Ἡρόδοτοσ ὁ λογοποιὸσ καὶ ὁ μελοποιὸσ Ἀνακρέων· (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 10:1)
  • Ἀνακρέων δὲ ὁ τῶν μελῶν ποιητὴσ ἔζησεν ἔτη πέντε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα, καὶ Στησίχοροσ δὲ ὁ μελοποιὸσ ταὐτά, Σιμωνίδησ δὲ ὁ Κεῖοσ ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 26:1)
  • δεύτερον δὲ καὶ τρίτον παράδειγμα Θεανώ τε ἐκείνη καὶ ἡ Λεσβία μελοποιόσ, καὶ Διοτίμα ἐπὶ ταύταισ, ἡ μὲν τὸ μεγαλόνουν ἡ Θεανὼ συμβαλλομένη εἰσ τὴν γραφήν, ἡ Σαπφὼ δὲ τὸ γλαφυρὸν τῆσ προαιρέσεωσ· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 18:1)
  • ποτίκολλον ἅτε ξύλον παρὰ ξύλῳ, φησὶν ὁ Θηβαῖοσ μελοποιόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 441)
  • καὶ Ξάνθοσ δ’ ὁ μελοποιόσ, πρεσβύτεροσ ὢν Στησιχόρου, ὡσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ὁ Στησίχοροσ μαρτυρεῖ, ὥσ φησιν ὁ Μεγακλείδησ, οὐ ταύτην αὐτῷ περιτίθησι τὴν στολήν, ἀλλὰ τὴν Ὁμηρικήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 6 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a maker of songs

  2. tuneful

Related

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

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