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προσῳδία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: prosōidiā

Principal Part: προσῳδία προσῳδίας

Structure: προσῳδι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: ᾠδή

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

  • καὶ ἔστι λέξις κρατίστη πασῶν, ἥτις ἂν ἔχῃ πλείστας ἀναπαύλας τε καὶ μεταβολὰς ἐναρμονίους, ὅταν τουτὶ μὲν ἐν περιόδῳ λέγηται, τουτὶ δ ἔξω περιόδου καὶ ἥδε μὲν ἡ περίοδος ἐκ πλειόνων πλέκηται κώλων, ἥδε δ ἐξ ἐλαττόνων, αὐτῶν δὲ τῶν κώλων τὸ μὲν βραχύτερον ᾖ, τὸ δὲ μακρότερον καὶ τὸ μὲν αὐτουργότερον , τὸ δὲ ἀκριβέστερον, ῥυθμοί τε ἄλλοτε ἄλλοι καὶ σχήματα παντοῖα καὶ τάσεις φωνῆς αἱ καλούμεναι προσῳδίαι διάφοροι κλέπτουσαι τῇ ποικιλίᾳ τὸν κόρον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1917)
  • 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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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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