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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

  • ἐνόπλιοσ δὲ αὐτῶν ἡ ὄρχησισ ἦν, τὰ ξίφη μεταξὺ κροτούντων πρὸσ τὰσ ἀσπίδασ καὶ πηδώντων ἔνθεὸν τι καὶ πολεμικόν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 8:2)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ Διονυσιακὰ καὶ Βακχικὰ οἶμαί σε μὴ περιμένειν ἐμοῦ ἀκοῦσαι, ὅτι ὄρχησισ ἐκεῖνα πάντα ἦν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 22:1)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ ἐναγώνιοσ ἡ ὄρχησισ, ἐκείνην εἶναί φημι αἰτίαν, τὸ δόξαι τοῖσ ἀγωνοθέταισ μεῖζον καὶ σεμνότερον τὸ πρᾶγμα ἢ ὥστε εἰσ ἐξέτασιν καλεῖσθαι. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 32:1)
  • ἀλλὰ κἂν εἰσ τὴν Κρήτην ἀφίκῃ τῷ λόγῳ, πάμπολλα κἀκεῖθεν ἡ ὄρχησισ ἐρανίζεται, τὴν Εὐρώπην, τὴν Πασιφάην, τοὺσ ταύρουσ ἀμφοτέρουσ, τὸν λαβύρινθον, τὴν Ἀριάδνην, τὴν Φαίδραν, τὸν Ἀνδρόγεων, τὸν Δαίδαλον, τὸν Ἴκαρον, τὸν Γλαῦκον, τὴν Πολυΐδου μαντικήν, τὸν Τάλω, τὸν χαλκοῦν τῆσ Κρήτησ περίπολον. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 49:1)
  • κἂν εἰσ Αἰτωλίαν μετέλθῃσ, κἀκεῖ πολλὰ ἡ ὄρχησισ καταλαμβάνει, τὴν Ἀλθαίαν, τὸν Μελέαγρον, τὴν Ἀταλάντην, τὸν δαλόν, καὶ ποταμοῦ καὶ Ἡρακλέουσ πάλην καὶ Σειρήνων γένεσιν καὶ Ἐχινάδων ἀνάδοσιν καὶ μετὰ τὴν μανίαν Ἀλκμαίωνοσ οἴκησιν εἶτα Νέσσον καὶ Δηϊανείρασ ζηλοτυπίαν, ἐφ’ ᾗ τὴν ἐν Οἴτῃ πυράν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 50:1)
  • ὁ δὲ ὁρ́μοσ ὄρχησίσ ἐστιν κοινὴ ἐφήβων τε καὶ παρθένων, παρ’ ἕνα χορευόντων καὶ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ὁρ́μῳ ἐοικότων καὶ ἡγεῖται μὲν ὁ ἔφηβοσ τὰ νεανικὰ ὀρχούμενοσ καὶ ὅσοισ ὕστερον ἐν πολέμῳ χρήσεται, ἡ παρθένοσ δὲ ἕπεται κοσμίωσ τὸ θῆλυ χορεύειν διδάσκουσα, ὡσ εἶναι τὸν ὁρ́μον ἐκ σωφροσύνησ καὶ ἀνδρείασ πλεκόμενον. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 12:1)
  • καὶ αἱ γυμνοπαιδίαι ^ δὲ αὐτοῖσ ὁμοίωσ ὄρχησίσ ἐστιν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 12:2)

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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