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χορδή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χορδή

Structure: χορδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. (in the plural) guts, intestines
  2. string made of gut
  3. string, chord
  4. sausage

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

  • αἰνεῖτε αὐτὸν ἐν τυμπάνῳ καὶ χορῷ, αἰνεῖτε αὐτὸν ἐν χορδαῖσ καὶ ὀργάνῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 150:4)
  • ὅτε τὸν Ὀρφέα διεσπάσαντο αἱ Θρᾷτται, φασὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ σὺν τῇ λύρᾳ εἰσ τὸν Ἕβρον ἐμπεσοῦσαν ἐκβληθῆναι εἰσ τὸν μέλανα κόλπον, καὶ ἐπιπλεῖν γε τὴν κεφαλὴν τῇ λύρᾳ, τὴν μὲν ᾄδουσαν θρῆνόν τινα ἐπὶ τῷ Ὀρφεῖ, ὡσ λόγοσ,^ τὴν λύραν δὲ αὐτὴν ὑπηχεῖν τῶν ἀνέμων ἐμπιπτόντων ταῖσ χορδαῖσ, καὶ οὕτω μετ’ ᾠδῆσ προσενεχθῆναι τῇ Λέσβῳ, κἀκείνουσ ἀνελομένουσ τὴν μὲν κεφαλὴν καταθάψαι ἵναπερ νῦν τὸ Βακχεῖον αὐτοῖσ ἐστι, τὴν λύραν δὲ ἀναθεῖναι εἰσ τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνοσ τὸ ἱερόν, καὶ ἐπὶ πολύ γε σώζεσθαι αὐτήν. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 11:2)
  • αὗται δ’ ὅτι πέντε καὶ οὐ πλείουσ, ὁ λόγοσ ἐξελέγχει τὸν ἐν χορδαῖσ καὶ τρυπήμασι ταῦτα θηρᾶν ἀλόγωσ τῇ αἰσθήσει βουλόμενον. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 106)
  • Τὸ δὲ ψαλτήριον, ὥσ φησιν Ιὄβασ, Ἀλέξανδροσ ὁ Κυθήριοσ συνεπλήρωσε χορδαῖσ καὶ ἐγγηράσασ τῇ Ἐφεσίων πόλει ὡσ σοφώτατον τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ τέχνησ τουτὶ τὸ εὑρ́ημα ἀνέθηκε ἐν Ἀρτέμιδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 81 2:5)
  • "τὰ δὲ δὴ δένδρη τἀν τοῖσ ὄρεσιν χορδαῖσ ὀπταῖσ ἐριφείοισ φυλλοροήσει καὶ τευθιδίοισ ἁπαλοῖσι κίχλαισ τ’ ἀναβράστοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:159)

Synonyms

  1. guts

  2. string

  3. sausage

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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