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ὑμνῳδία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑμνῳδία

Structure: ὑμνῳδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the singing of a hymn, hymning
  2. a prophetic strain

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑμνῳδία ὑμνῳδίᾱ ὑμνῳδίαι
Genitive ὑμνῳδίᾱς ὑμνῳδίαιν ὑμνῳδιῶν
Dative ὑμνῳδίᾱͅ ὑμνῳδίαιν ὑμνῳδίαις
Accusative ὑμνῳδίᾱν ὑμνῳδίᾱ ὑμνῳδίᾱς
Vocative ὑμνῳδίᾱ ὑμνῳδίᾱ ὑμνῳδίαι

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

  • τίν’, ὦ παῖ πρόμαντι Λατοῦσ, ἔχρη‐ σασ ὑμνῳδίαν; (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 12)
  • καὶ τὰ ὄργανα τὰ μουσικὰ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ὑμνῳδίαν ἐξηυρημένα, ἃ καλεῖται νάβλασ καὶ κινύρασ, ἐξ ἠλέκτρου κατεσκεύασε τετρακισμύρια. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 119:2)

Synonyms

  1. the singing of a hymn

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

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