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μολπαστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μολπαστής μολπαστοῦ

Structure: μολπαστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from molpa/zw

Sense

  1. a minstrel or dancer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μολπαστής μολπαστᾱ́ μολπασταί
Genitive μολπαστοῦ μολπασταῖν μολπαστῶν
Dative μολπαστῇ μολπασταῖν μολπασταῖς
Accusative μολπαστήν μολπαστᾱ́ μολπαστᾱ́ς
Vocative μολπαστά μολπαστᾱ́ μολπασταί

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

  • ἀνθ’ ὧν εὐύδρον, Νύμφαι, τόδε δῶμα γέροντοσ αὔξετε, Πὰν γλαγερόν, Βάκχε πολυστάφυλον ἅλικεσ αἵ τε κόμαι καὶ ὁ Κρωβύλοσ, ἃσ ἀπὸ Φοίβῳ πέξατο μολπαστᾷ κῶροσ ὁ τετραετήσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 154 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a minstrel or dancer

Similar forms

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

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