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ὄρχημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρχημα ὄρχηματος

Structure: ὀρχηματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. dances, dancing

Declension

Third declension

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

  • Τεκμήριον, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, ὅτι καλῶσ γυμνάζει καὶ τὰ ἐμὰ ὀρχήματα. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 2 25:2)
  • δόξειε δ’ ἂν ὥσπερ ἐν γραφικῇ τὰ μὲν ποιήματα τοῖσ χρώμασιν ἑοικέναι τὰ δ’ ὀρχήματα ταῖσ γραμμαῖσ, ὑφ’ ὧν ὁρίζεται τὰ εἴδη. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 20:1)

Synonyms

  1. dances

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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