Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ᾠδοποιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ᾠδοποιός ᾠδοποιόν

Structure: ᾠδοποι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poie/w

Sense

  1. making songs or odes

Examples

  • "̓Ανακρέοντοσ εἰκόν’ εἶδον ἐν Τέῳ τῶν πρόσθ’ εἴ τι περισσὸν ᾠδοποιοῦ. (Theocritus, Idylls2)
  • θᾶσαι τὸν ἀνδριάντα τοῦτον, ὦ ξένε, σπουδᾷ, καὶ λέγ’, ἐπὰν ἐσ οἶκον ἔνθῃσ, Ἀνακρέοντοσ εἰκόν’ εἶδον ἐν Τέῳ, τῶν πρόσθ’ εἴ τι περισσὸν ᾠδοποιοῦ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5991)

Synonyms

  1. making songs or odes

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

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