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ὀρχηστύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρχηστύς ὀρχηστύος

Structure: ὀρχηστυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for o)/rxhsis

Sense

  1. the dance

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

  • ἄλλῳ μὲν γὰρ ἔδωκε θεὸσ πολεμήϊα ἔργα, ἄλλῳ δ’ ὀρχηστύν τε καὶ ἱμερόεσσαν ἀοιδήν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 23:5)
  • οἱ δ’ εἰσ ὀρχηστύν τε καὶ ἱμερόεσσαν ἀοιδὴν τρεψάμενοι τέρποντο, μένον δ’ ἐπὶ ἕσπερον ἐλθεῖν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 42:1)
  • ἡ μὲν ἔπειτ’ ἀνέβαιν’ ὑπερώϊα δῖα γυναικῶν, τῇ δ’ ἄρ’ ἅμ’ ἀμφίπολοι ἔφερον περικαλλέα δῶρα οἱ δ’ εἰσ ὀρχηστύν τε καὶ ἱμερόεσσαν ἀοιδὴν τρεψάμενοι τέρποντο, μένον δ’ ἐπὶ ἕσπερον ἐλθεῖν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 48:11)
  • ἄλλῳ μὲν γὰρ ἔδωκε θεὸσ πολεμήϊα ἔργα, ἄλλῳ δ’ ὀρχηστύν, ἑτέρῳ κίθαριν καὶ ἀοιδήν, ἄλλῳ δ’ ἐν στήθεσσι τιθεῖ νόον εὐρύοπα Ζεὺσ ἐσθλόν, τοῦ δέ τε πολλοὶ ἐπαυρίσκοντ’ ἄνθρωποι, καί τε πολέασ ἐσάωσε, μάλιστα δὲ καὐτὸσ ἀνέγνω. (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 68:5)

Synonyms

  1. the dance

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

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