Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὀρχηστικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχηστικός ὀρχηστική ὀρχηστικόν

Structure: ὀρχηστικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or fit for dancing
  2. pantomimic

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τοῦτ’ οὖν εἰδότεσ οἱ Κροτωνιᾶται ὅτε αὐτοῖσ ἐπολέμουν, ὡσ καὶ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ διὰ τῆσ Πολιτείασ αὐτῶν, ἐνέδοσαν τοῖσ ἵπποισ τὸ ὀρχηστικὸν μέλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 192)

Synonyms

  1. of or fit for dancing

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

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