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πολυχορδία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυχορδία

Structure: πολυχορδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the use of many strings

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

  • "οὐκ ἄρα, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, πολυχορδίασ γε οὐδὲ παναρμονίου ἡμῖν δεήσει ἐν ταῖσ ᾠδαῖσ τε καὶ μέλεσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 80 3:3)
  • τε καὶ μεταβολῆσ καὶ πολυχορδίασ καὶ ἄλλων πολλῶν ἐν μέσῳ ὄντων ῥυθμῶν τε καὶ ἁρμονιῶν καὶ λέξεων καὶ μελοποιίασ καὶ ἑρμηνείασ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 21 2:1)
  • "ὅθεν που καὶ τὰσ πολυχορδίασ μετὰ πολλῆσ οἱ μουσικοὶ κινοῦσιν εὐλαβείασ, αἷσ οὐδὲν ἄλλο κακὸν ἢ τὸ μικτόν ἐστι καὶ ποικίλον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 9:12)
  • οὐκ ἄρα, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, πολυχορδίασ γε οὐδὲ παναρμονίου ἡμῖν δεήσει ἐν ταῖσ ᾠδαῖσ τε καὶ μέλεσιν. (Plato, Republic, book 3 270:1)

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

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