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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

  • τῶν τότε ἀρίστων ὀρχηστῶν καταστησαμένων αὐτάσ, ὥσ τι κάλλιστον καὶ τοῦτο νομοθετησάντων, σὺν ῥυθμῷ καὶ ὀρχήσει μυεῖσθαι. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 15:2)
  • ὃ δέ ἐστι μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρχηστῶν ἐπαινέσαι, τοῦτο ἤδη ἐρῶ· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 73:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐκ ἀπό γε τῶν τοιούτων ὀρχηστῶν ὀρχήσεωσ αὐτῆσ, οἶμαι, καταγνωστέον οὐδὲ τὸ ἔργον αὐτὸ μισητέον, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ μέν, ὥσπερ εἰσίν, ἀμαθεῖσ νομιστέον, ἐπαινετέον δὲ τοὺσ ἐννόμωσ καὶ κατὰ ῥυθμὸν τῆσ τέχνησ ἱκανῶσ ἕκαστα δρῶντασ. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 80:7)
  • ὥσπερ Ἑλλήνων οἱ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ δυνατώτατοι περὶ σπουδὰσ ὀρχηστῶν εἶτα κιθαρῳδῶν διαστάντεσ, ἐκ τούτου τὰσ ἐν Αἰδηψῷ κολυμβήθρασ καὶ παστάδασ καὶ ἀνδρῶνασ ἀντιπαραβάλλοντεσ ἀεὶ καὶ τοπομαχοῦντεσ καὶ ἀποκόπτοντεσ ὀχετοὺσ καὶ ἀποστρέφοντεσ, οὕτωσ ἐξηγριώθησαν καὶ διεφθάρησαν, ὥστε πάντων ἀφαιρεθέντεσ ὑπὸ τοῦ τυράννου καὶ φυγάδεσ καὶ πένητεσ καὶ ὀλίγου δέω λέγειν ἕτεροι τῶν πρότερον γενόμ ενοι μόνῳ διέμειναν οἱ αὐτοὶ τῷ μισεῖν ἀλλήλουσ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 17 1:1)
  • ὥσπερ Ἑλλήνων οἱ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ δυνατώτατοι περὶ σπουδὰσ ὀρχηστῶν εἶτα κιθαρῳδῶν διαναστάντεσ, ἐκ τούτου τὰσ ἐν Αἰδηψῷ κολυμβήθρασ καὶ παστάδασ καὶ ἀνδρῶνασ ἀντιπαραβάλλοντεσ ἀεὶ καὶ τοπομαχοῦντεσ καὶ ἀποκόπτοντεσ; (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 17 2:1)

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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