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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

  • ἔνθεν ἔχων σύριγγα κατ’ ἤθεα καλὰ νομήων Πανὶ καὶ Ἑρμάωνι φίλην ἀνεβάλλετο μολπήν· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 157)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ὅμηροσ τὰ ἥδιστα καὶ κάλλιστα καταλέγων, ὕπνον καὶ φιλότητα καὶ μολπὴν καὶ ὄρχησιν , μόνην ταύτην ἀμύμονα ὠνόμασεν, προσμαρτυρήσασ νὴ Δία καὶ τὸ ἡδὺ τῇ μολπῇ, ἅπερ ἀμφότερα τῇ ὀρχηστικῇ] πρόσεστιν, καὶ ᾠδὴ γλυκερὰ καὶ ὀρχησμὸσ ^ ἀμύμων, ὃν σὺ νῦν μωμᾶσθαι ἐπινοεῖσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 23:3)
  • ὑμεῖσ δ’ ἀνεγείρετε μολπὴν καὶ παννυχίδασ τὰσ ἡμετέρασ αἳ τῇδε πρέπουσιν ἑορτῇ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, anapests3)
  • πᾶσαι δέ οἱ, ἥντιν’ ἀθύροι μολπήν, οὐκ ἐπὶ δηρὸν ἐφήνδανεν ἑψιάασθαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 16:3)
  • Κλειὼ καλλιχόρου κιθάρησ μελιηδέα μολπὴν Εὐτέρπη τραγικοῖο χοροῦ πολυηχέα φωνὴν Μελπομένη θνητοῖσι μελίφρονα βάρβιτον εὑρ͂ε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5042)

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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