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μολπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μολπή

Structure: μολπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: me/lpw

Sense

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

ἀντιψάλμουσ ᾠδὰσ ὕμνων τ’ Ἀσιητᾶν σοι βάρβαρον ἀχὰν δεσποίνᾳ γ’ ἐξαυδάσω, τὰν ἐν θρήνοισιν μοῦσαν νέκυσι μελομέναν, τὰν ἐν μολπαῖσ Αἵδασ ὑμνεῖ δίχα παιάνων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 2:1)
ὄρνισ, ἃ παρὰ πετρίνασ πόντου δειράδασ, ἀλκυών, ἔλεγον οἶτον ἀείδεισ, εὐξύνετον ξυνετοῖσ βοάν, ὅτι πόσιν κελαδεῖσ ἀεὶ μολπαῖσ, ἐγώ σοι παραβάλλομαι θρήνουσ, ἄπτεροσ ὁρ́νισ, ποθοῦσ’ Ἑλλάνων ἀγόρουσ, ποθοῦσ’ Ἄρτεμιν λοχίαν, ἃ παρὰ Κύνθιον ὄχθον οἰ‐ κεῖ φοίνικά θ’ ἁβροκόμαν δάφναν τ’ εὐερνέα καὶ γλαυκᾶσ θαλλὸν ἱερὸν ἐλαί‐ ασ, Λατοῦσ ὠδῖνα φίλαν, λίμναν θ’ εἱλίσσουσαν ὕδωρ κύκλιον, ἔνθα κύκνοσ μελῳ‐ δὸσ Μούσασ θεραπεύει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 11)
ἄγε νυν ἑτέραν ὕμνων ἰδέαν τὴν καρποφόρον βασίλειαν Δήμητρα θεὰν ἐπικοσμοῦντεσ ζαθέαισ μολπαῖσ κελαδεῖτε. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, anapests1)
δαίμων δ’ ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα χορῶν, τοτὲ δ’ ἐσ μέσον ἑρ́πων, πυκνὰ ποσὶν διέπει, λαῖφοσ δ’ ἐπὶ νῶτα δαφοινὸν λυγκὸσ ἔχει, λιγυρῇσιν ἀγαλλόμενοσ φρένα μολπαῖσ ἐν μαλακῷ λειμῶνι, τόθι κρόκοσ ἠδ’ ὑάκινθοσ εὐώδησ θαλέθων καταμίσγεται ἄκριτα ποίῃ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:8)
ὀλολύξατε νῦν ἐπὶ μολπαῖσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, strophe 22)

Synonyms

singing
- ἔπος (song)
- μέλιγμα (a song)
- τραγῳδίᾱ (song)
- μελῳδίᾱ (song, singing; chant; music)

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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