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ὀρχησμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχησμός ὀρχησμοῦ

Structure: ὀρχησμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = o)rxhqmo/s, Aesch.

Sense

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀρχησμός ὀρχησμώ ὀρχησμοί
Genitive ὀρχησμοῦ ὀρχησμοῖν ὀρχησμῶν
Dative ὀρχησμῷ ὀρχησμοῖν ὀρχησμοῖς
Accusative ὀρχησμόν ὀρχησμώ ὀρχησμούς
Vocative ὀρχησμέ ὀρχησμώ ὀρχησμοί

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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ὅμηροσ τὰ ἥδιστα καὶ κάλλιστα καταλέγων, ὕπνον καὶ φιλότητα καὶ μολπὴν καὶ ὄρχησιν , μόνην ταύτην ἀμύμονα ὠνόμασεν, προσμαρτυρήσασ νὴ Δία καὶ τὸ ἡδὺ τῇ μολπῇ, ἅπερ ἀμφότερα τῇ ὀρχηστικῇ] πρόσεστιν, καὶ ᾠδὴ γλυκερὰ καὶ ὀρχησμὸσ ^ ἀμύμων, ὃν σὺ νῦν μωμᾶσθαι ἐπινοεῖσ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 23:3)
  • ᾧ πᾶσαι μὲν ἐφαρμόζουσιν ἀοιδαί, πάντεσ δ’ ὀρχησμοί, πᾶσαι δ’ ἐραταὶ φιλότητεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 4 4:1)
  • "καὶ ἐπεὶ ἤκουσαν οἱ ἵπποι τοῦ αὐλοῦ, ἔστησαν ἐπὶ τῶν ὀπισθίων ποδῶν καὶ πρὸσ ὀρχησμὸν ἐτράποντο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 19 1:13)
  • φηγίνεον κρητῆρα, καὶ αὐτούργητον ἐρείκησ βάθρον, ἰδ’ ὑαλέην οἰνοδόκον κύλικα, ὡσ ἂν ὑπ’ ὀρχησμῶν λελυγισμένον ἔγκοπον ἴχνοσ ἀμπαύσῃσ, ξηρὴν δίψαν ἐλαυνόμενοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 33 1:1)
  • θῆρα, τὸν ὀρχησμῶν αὐτομαθῆ Κυβέλησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 218 2:1)

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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