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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

  • ἄρξομαι δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ μελοποιοῦ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2318)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἐπεὶ παρεξέβην περὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων κράσεων διαλεγόμενοσ, ἐπαναλήψομαι τὸν λόγον τὰ ὑπὸ Ἀλκαίου τοῦ μελοποιοῦ λεχθέντα ἐπὶ νοῦν βαλλόμενοσ φησὶ γάρ που οὗτοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 35 1:4)
  • ἐτάφη ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ, κενοτάφιον δ’ αὐτοῦ Ἀθήνησιν ἐγένετο καὶ ἐπίγραμμα ἐπέγεγραπτο Θουκυδίδου τοῦ ἱστοριογράφου ποίησαντοσ ἢ Τιμοθέου τοῦ μελοποιοῦ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 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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