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ὀρχηστρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχηστρίς ὀρχηστρίδος

Structure: ὀρχηστριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = o)rxh/stria, Ar., Plat.

Sense

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

  • ἴθι νυν φράσον πρώτιστα ταῖσ ὀρχηστρίσιν ταῖσ ἔνδον οὔσαισ αὐτὸσ ὅτι εἰσέρχομαι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:15)
  • "περὶ δὲ Θετταλῶν λέγων ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ φησὶν ὅτι ζῶσιν οἱ μὲν σὺν ταῖσ ὀρχηστρίσιν καὶ ταῖσ αὐλητρίσιν διατρίβοντεσ, οἱ δ’ ἐν κύβοισ καὶ πότοισ καὶ ταῖσ τοιαύταισ ἀκολασίαισ διημερεύοντεσ, καὶ μᾶλλον σπουδάζουσιν ὅπωσ ὄψων παντοδαπῶν τὰσ τραπέζασ παραθήσονται πλήρεισ ἢ τὸν αὑτῶν βίον ὅπωσ παρασχήσονται κεκοσμημένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:106)

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

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