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ὄρχησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρχησις ὄρχησεως

Structure: ὀρχησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. dancing, the dance, pantomimic 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

  • τοὺσ μὲν γὰρ Φαίακασ καὶ πάνυ εἰκὸσ ἦν ὀρχήσει χαίρειν, ἁβρούσ τε ὄντασ καὶ ἐν πάσῃ εὐδαιμονίᾳ διατρίβοντασ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 13:3)
  • τῶν τότε ἀρίστων ὀρχηστῶν καταστησαμένων αὐτάσ, ὥσ τι κάλλιστον καὶ τοῦτο νομοθετησάντων, σὺν ῥυθμῷ καὶ ὀρχήσει μυεῖσθαι. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 15:2)
  • καὶ τί σοι τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ λέγω, ὅπου καὶ Ἰνδοὶ ἐπειδὰν ἑώθεν ἀναστάντεσ προσεύχωνται τὸν Ἥλιον, οὐχ ὥσπερ ἡμεῖσ τὴν χεῖρα κύσαντεσ ἡγούμεθα ἐντελῆ ἡμῶν εἶναι, τὴν εὐχήν, ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνοι πρὸσ τὴν ἀνατολὴν στάντεσ ὀρχήσει τὸν Ἥλιον ἀσπάζονται, σχηματίζοντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ σιωπῇ καὶ μιμούμενοι τὴν χορείαν τοῦ θεοῦ· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 17:1)
  • Αἰθίοπεσ δέ γε καὶ πολεμοῦντεσ σὺν ὀρχήσει αὐτὸ δρῶσιν, καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἀφείη τὸ βέλοσ Αἰθίοψ ἀνήρ ἀφελὼν τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ‐ ταύτῃ γὰρ ἀντὶ φαρέτρασ χρῶνται περιδέοντεσ αὐτῇ ἀκτινηδὸν τὰ βέλη ‐ εἰ μὴ πρότερον ὀρχήσαιτο καὶ τῷ σχήματι ἀπειλήσειε καὶ προεκφοβήσειε τῇ ὀρχήσει τὸν πολέμιον. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. dancing

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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