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ὀρχηστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχηστής ὀρχηστοῦ

Structure: ὀρχηστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: o)rxe/omai

Sense

  1. a dancer
  2. a dancing-master

Declension

First 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

  • μέρη γάρ τῆσ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ ὑπηρεσίασ καὶ ταῦτα. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 26:4)
  • τὸ δὲ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ σχῆμα ὡσ μὲν κόσμιον καὶ εὐπρεπὲσ οὐκ ἐμὲ χρὴ λέγειν, δῆλα γὰρ τοῖσ μὴ τυφλοῖσ ταῦτα· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 29:2)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν κεφάλαιον τῆσ ὑποσχέσεωσ,^ μιμητικὴ τίσ ἐστιν ἐπιστήμη καὶ δεικτικὴ καὶ τῶν ἐννοηθέντων ἐξαγορευτικὴ καὶ τῶν ἀφανῶν σαφηνιστική, καὶ ὅπερ ὁ Θουκυδίδησ περὶ τοῦ Περικλέουσ ἔφη ἐπαινῶν τὸν ἄνδρα, τοῦτο καὶ τὸ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ ἀκρότατον ἂν ἐγκώμιον εἰή, γνῶναί τε τὰ δέοντα καὶ ἑρμηνεῦσαι αὐτά· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 36:3)
  • τούτῳ γὰρ τῷ διαστήματι περιωρίσθω ἡμῖν ἡ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ πολυμαθία καὶ τὰ διὰ μέσου μάλιστα ἴστω, Οὐρανοῦ τομήν, Ἀφροδίτησ γονάσ, Τιτάνων μάχην, Διὸσ γένεσιν, Ῥέασ ἀπάτην, λίθου ὑποβολήν, Κρόνου δεσμά, τὸν τῶν τριῶν ἀδελφῶν κλῆρον. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 37:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ μιμητικόσ ἐστι καὶ κινήμασι τὰ ᾀδόμενα δείξειν ὑπισχνεῖται, ἀναγκαῖον αὐτῷ, ὅπερ καὶ τοῖσ ῥήτορσι, σαφήνειαν ἀσκεῖν, ὡσ ἕκαστον τῶν δεικνυμένων ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ δηλοῦσθαι μηδενὸσ ἐξηγητοῦ δεόμενον, ἀλλ’ ὅπερ ἔφη ὁ Πυθικὸσ χρησμόσ, δεῖ τὸν θεώμενον ὄρχησιν καὶ κωφοῦ συνιέναι καὶ μὴ λαλέοντοσ τοῦ ὀρχηστοῦ ἀκούειν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 62:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dancer

  2. a dancing-master

Related

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

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