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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

  • ὀρχήσεισ δ’ εἰσὶ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ αἱ μέν τινεσ τῶν κυβιστητήρων, αἱ δὲ διὰ τῆσ σφαίρασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 251)
  • ὀρχήσεισ δὲ ἐθνικαὶ αἵδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 401)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο παίγνιον γέγονεν ἀνθρώπου καὶ θέαμα πανηγυρικόν, ὀρχήσεισ τε μανθάνει καὶ χορείασ καὶ προσκυνήσεισ, οὐκ ἀχρήστωσ τῶν τοιούτων παρεισαγομένων, ἀλλ’ ἵνα μανθάνωμεν ποῖ τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἡ φρόνησισ αἴρει καὶ τίνων ὑπεράνω ποιεῖ, καὶ πῶσ κρατεῖ πάντων καὶ περίεστιν. (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 11:1)
  • "εἰσ δὲ τὰσ ἐν τοῖσ συμποσίοισ ὀρχήσεισ ἀπὸ μετεώρων κλινῶν καθαλλόμενοσ ἀνυπόδητοσ συντονωτέρασ αὐτὰσ τῶν ἠσκηκότων ἐποιεῖτο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 73 4:2)
  • "καὶ τῶν μὲν ἄλλων μαθημάτων ἀρνηθῆναί τι μὴ εἰδέναι οὐδὲν αἰσχρόν ἐστιν, τὸ δὲ ᾄδειν ἀποτρίβεσθαι αἰσχρὸν παρ’ αὐτοῖσ νομίζεται, καὶ μὴν ἐμβατήρια μετ’ αὐλοῦ καὶ τάξεωσ ἀσκοῦντεσ, ἔτι δὲ ὀρχήσεισ ἐκπονοῦντεσ μετὰ κοινῆσ ἐπιστροφῆσ καὶ δαπάνησ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐν τοῖσ θεάτροισ ἐπι δείκνυνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 225)

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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