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προσῳδίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: προσῳδίᾱ προσῳδίᾱς

Structure: προσῳδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: w)|dh/

Sense

  1. a song with an accompaniment
  2. (grammar) the tone or pitch of a word
  3. diacritic mark

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

  • Τρύφων δὲ ἐν Ἀττικῇ προσῳδίᾳ ἀμυγδάλην μὲν τὸν καρπὸν βαρέωσ, ὃν ἡμεῖσ οὐδετέρωσ ἀμύγδαλον λέγομεν, ἀμυγδαλᾶσ δὲ τὰ δένδρα, κτητικοῦ παρὰ τὸν καρπὸν ὄντοσ τοῦ χαρακτῆροσ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο περισπωμένου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 40 1:10)
  • "τεκμαιρόμενοι οὖν Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ διὰ τῆσ τάξεωσ τὴν ἐνοῦσαν τῇ προσῳδίᾳ φύσιν οὐκ ἐπὶ τῶν φωνηέντων αὐτὴν τιθέασιν ὥσπερ τὰσ ἄλλασ , πρὸ δὲ τούτων τάσσουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 57 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. a song with an accompaniment

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