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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

  • δύο δὲ κυβιστητῆρεσ μολπῆσ ἐξάρχοντεσ ἐδίνευον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 242)
  • μολπῆσ δὲ ἀντὶ τοῦ παιδιᾶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 243)
  • ὣσ οἱ μὲν δαίνυντο καθ’ ὑψερεφὲσ μέγα δῶμα γείτονεσ ἠδὲ ἔται Μενελάου κυδαλίμοιο τερπόμενοι μετὰ δέ σφιν ἐμέλπετο θεῖοσ ἀοιδὸσ φορμίζων δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ’ αὐτοὺσ μολπῆσ ἐξάρχοντεσ ἐδίνευον κατὰ μέσσουσ, μετενεγκόντεσ ἐκ τῆσ Ὁπλοποιίασ σὺν αὐτῷ γε τῷ περὶ τὴν λέξιν ἁμαρτήματι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 9 2:1)
  • μετὰ δέ σφιν ἐμέλπετο θεῖοσ ἀοιδὸσ φορμίζων δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ’ αὐτοὺσ μολπῆσ ἐξάρχοντεσ ἐδίνευον κατὰ μέσσουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 10 2:1)
  • δοιὼ δὲ κυβιστητῆρε κατ’ αὐτοὺσ μολπῆσ ἐξάρχοντεσ ἐδίνευον κατὰ μέσσουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 10 4:1)

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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