προσῳδίᾱ
First declension Noun; Feminine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
προσῳδίᾱ
προσῳδίᾱς
Structure:
προσῳδι
(Stem)
+
ᾱ
(Ending)
Sense
- a song with an accompaniment
- (grammar) the tone or pitch of a word
- 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.
- 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
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a song with an accompaniment