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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

  • ἐλθόντα δὲ πλησιάσαι Θάλητι μελοποιῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ νομοθετικῷ, ἱστορήσαντα δὲ παρ’ αὐτοῦ τὸν τρόπον ὃν Ῥαδάμανθύσ τε πρότερον καὶ ὕστερον Μίνωσ, ὡσ παρὰ τοῦ Διόσ, τοὺσ νόμουσ ἐκφέροι εἰσ ἀνθρώπουσ, γενόμενον δὲ καὶ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ καταμαθόντα καὶ τὰ ἐκεῖ νόμιμα, ἐντυχόντα δ’, ὥσ φασί τινεσ, καὶ Ὁμήρῳ διατρίβοντι ἐν Χίῳ, κατᾶραι πάλιν εἰσ τὴν οἰκείαν, καταλαβεῖν δὲ τὸν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ υἱὸν τὸν Πολυδέκτου Χαρίλαον βασιλεύοντα· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 27:8)

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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