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ὑμνῳδός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑμνῳδός ὑμνῳδόν

Structure: ὑμνῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: w)|dh/

Sense

  1. singing hymns, minstrel

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὑμνῳδός ύ̔μνῳδον
Genitive ὑμνῳδοῦ ὑμνῴδου
Dative ὑμνῳδῷ ὑμνῴδῳ
Accusative ὑμνῳδόν ύ̔μνῳδον
Vocative ὑμνῳδέ ύ̔μνῳδον
DualN/A/V ὑμνῳδώ ὑμνῴδω
G/D ὑμνῳδοῖν ὑμνῴδοιν
PluralNominative ὑμνῳδοί ύ̔μνῳδα
Genitive ὑμνῳδῶν ὑμνῴδων
Dative ὑμνῳδοῖς ὑμνῴδοις
Accusative ὑμνῳδούς ύ̔μνῳδα
Vocative ὑμνῳδοί ύ̔μνῳδα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὑμνῳδός ὑμνῳδοῦ ὑμνῳδότερος ὑμνῳδοτεροῦ ὑμνῳδότατος ὑμνῳδοτατοῦ
Adverb ὑμνῴδως ὑμνῳδότερον ὑμνῳδότατα

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

  • ὑμνῳδούσ τε κόρασ ἤλυθεν ἑσπέριον ἐσ αὐλάν, χρυσέων πετάλων ἄπο μηλοφόρον χερὶ καρπὸν ἀμέρ‐ ξων, δράκοντα πυρσόνωτον, ὅσ <σφ’> ἄπλατον ἀμφελικτὸσ ἕλικ’ ἐφρούρει, κτανών· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • ἐξ ὧν ἀπέδειξεν ἐπιμελητὰσ μὲν τῆσ οἰκοδομίασ τοῦ ναοῦ δισμυρίουσ τετρακισχιλίουσ, κριτὰσ δὲ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ γραμματεῖσ τούτων ἑξακισχιλίουσ, πυλωροὺσ δὲ τετρακισχιλίουσ καὶ τοσούτουσ ὑμνῳδοὺσ τοῦ θεοῦ ᾄδοντασ τοῖσ ὀργάνοισ οἷσ Δαυίδησ κατεσκεύασε, καθὼσ προειρήκαμεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 447:1)

Synonyms

  1. singing hymns

Related

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

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