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ὑμνοθέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑμνοθέτης ὑμνοθέτου

Structure: ὑμνοθετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a composer of hymns, a lyric poet

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

  • νῦν δὴ τὠτρεκὲσ ἐφρασάμαν φοῖνιξ οὐ νίκαν ἐνέπει, πάτραν δὲ μεγαυχῆ ματέρα Φοινίκων, τὰν πολύπαιδα Τύρον ὄρνισ δ’, ὅττι γεγωνὸσ ἀνήρ, καί που περὶ Κύπριν πρᾶτοσ κἠν Μούσαισ ποικίλοσ ὑμνοθέτασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 428 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a composer of hymns

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

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