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ὑπόρχημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόρχημα ὑπόρχηματος

Structure: ὑπορχηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from u(porxe/omai

Sense

  1. a hyporcheme or choral hymn to Apollo

Declension

Third 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

  • ἄλλοι δὲ Ξενόδαμον ὑπορχημάτων ποιητὴν γεγονέναι φασὶ καὶ οὐ παιάνων, καθάπερ Πρατίνασ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 9 4:1)
  • καὶ μέθεξισ ἀλλήλων ἐστί, καὶ μάλιστα μιμούμεναι περὶ τὸ ὑπορχημάτων γένοσ ἐνεργὸν ἀμφότεραι τὴν διὰ τῶν σχημάτων καὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων μίμησιν ἀποτελοῦσι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 19:1)

Related

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

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