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μολπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μολπή

Structure: μολπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: me/lpw

Sense

  1. the song and dance, a chant or song accompanied by measured movements, play, sport, game at ball
  2. singing, song

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μολπή μολπᾱ́ μολπαί
Genitive μολπῆς μολπαῖν μολπῶν
Dative μολπῇ μολπαῖν μολπαῖς
Accusative μολπήν μολπᾱ́ μολπᾱ́ς
Vocative μολπή μολπᾱ́ μολπαί

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

  • αἲ Λίνον μὲν ἐπ’ εὐτυχεῖ μολπᾷ Φοῖβοσ ἰαχεῖ τὸν κάλλει φθιτόν, κιθάραν ἐλαύνων πλήκτρῳ χρυσέῳ· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, strophe 11)
  • σεμναὶ δ’ αὐλῶν ἀγαναὶ φωναί, μολπά, κλαγγὰ θράττει, πνεῖται κούραν κασίασ ἀπὸ γᾶσ ἁγίασ, ἁλίασ Συρίασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 67 4:5)
  • "λίνοσ δὲ καὶ αἴλινοσ οὐ μόνον ἐν πένθεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ’ ἐπ’ εὐτυχεῖ μολπᾷ κατὰ τὸν Εὐριπίδην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 10 4:9)
  • ἐμὲ δὲ στεφανῶσαι κεῖνον ἱππίῳ νόμῳ Αἰοληί̈δι μολπᾷ χρή· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 1 27:2)
  • χλιδῶσα δὲ μολπὰ πρὸσ κάλαμον ἀντιάξει μελέων, τὰ παρ’ εὐκλέϊ Δίρκᾳ χρόνῳ μὲν φάνεν· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 10 22:1)

Synonyms

  1. singing

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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