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ὑπάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπάτη

Structure: ὑπατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the lowest note

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

  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ αὐλῶν ὁ μείζων βαρύτερον φθέγξεται ὡσ ὑπάτη πρὸσ νήτην, τῶν δὲ χορδῶν ἡ τῷ διπλασίῳ κατατεινομένη βάρει τῆσ ἑτέρασ ὀξύτερον ὡσ νήτη πρὸσ ὑπάτην τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ διὰ πασῶν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 17 6:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ διὰ πέντε πρότερον γίγνεται τοῦ διὰ τεσσάρων, ἐπὶ τὸ βαρὺ τῇ ὑπάτῃ τοῦ τόνου προσληφθέντοσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 32 7:1)
  • ἐκείνη τε γὰρ ἐμμελὴσ οὖσα φωνὴ καθάπερ ἡ νήτη καὶ ὑπάτη, τῆσ μὲν τὴν ὀξύτητα τῆσ δὲ τὴν βαρύτητα τὴν ἄγαν διαπέφευγεν · (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 6 5:1)
  • τῶν συμφωνιῶν ἀναλογίαν φυλάσσει, τοῦ μὲν θυμοειδοῦσ πρὸσ τὸ λογιστικὸν ὡσ ὑπάτην τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων, πρὸσ δὲ τὸ ἐπιθυμητικὸν ὡσ νήτην τὸ διὰ πέντε, τοῦ δὲ λογιστικοῦ πρὸσ τὸ ἐπιθυμητικὸν ὡσ ὑπάτη πρὸσ νήτην τὸ διὰ πασῶν. (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 1 16:1)
  • ὄντων οὖν τῶν ἓξ καὶ δώδεκα ἄκρων, ἔχει ἡ μὲν ὑπάτη μέσων τὸν τῶν ἓξ ἀριθμόν, ἡ δὲ νήτη διεζευγμένων τὸν τῶν δώδεκα. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 22 8:2)

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

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