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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

  • οὐ λαμβάνει τὴν τῆσ μέσησ συλλαβῆσ προσῳδίαν ὀξεῖαν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τὴν τετάρτην συλλαβὴν μεταβέβηκεν ἡ τάσισ ἡ τῆσ τρίτησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1139)
  • καὶ οἱ τὴν προσῳδίαν δὲ διαστρέφοντεσ, "γουνάσιν" ὡσ θυιάσιν, ὁποτέρωσ ἂν δέξωνται, ἀπεραντολογοῦσιν, εἴθ’ ἱκετείασ ἑρμηνεύοντεσ εἴτε φρένασ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 69:9)

Synonyms

  1. a song with an accompaniment

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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