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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

  • τούτων οὖν ἃ μὲν καθάπαξ περιγραπτέον, οἷσ δὲ συμμέτρωσ χρηστέον ὥσπερ ἀναθήμασί τισι μικρὸν προσαποβλέψαντασ, καθάπερ Ὅμηροσ εἴρηκεν μολπὴ τ’ ὀρχηστύσ τε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 8 3:2)
  • "εἰ γάρ που καὶ χρησίμη καὶ παρὰ πότον, ὼ ὁ καλὸσ Ὅμηροσ ἀπέφηνε μολπή γάρ πού φησιν ὀρχηστύσ τε, τὰ γάρ τ’ ἀναθήματα δαιτόσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 43 1:4)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ πόσιοσ καὶ ἐδητύοσ ἐξ ἔρον ἕντο μνηστῆρεσ, τοῖσιν μὲν ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἄλλα μεμήλει, μολπή τ’ ὀρχηστύσ τε· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 15:4)

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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