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χρησμῳδία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμῳδία

Structure: χρησμῳδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from xrhsmw|do/s

Sense

  1. the answer of an oracle, a prophecy

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

  • ἥδ’ οὐκέτ’ εὐξύμβλητοσ ἡ χρησμῳδία. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 3:34)
  • οὕτω δὲ πανταχοῦ χώραν ἔχει ὥστε ὁ μὲν Ἄρησ παῖσ ἐστι πρὸσ αὐτὴν ἐν αὐτοῖσ τοῖσ ἑαυτοῦ πράγμασιν, ὁ δ’ Ἀπόλλων τῶν αὑτοῦ χρησμῳδιῶν ταύτην προὐστήσατο καὶ προθύειν ἐπέταξεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:14)

Synonyms

  1. the answer of an oracle

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

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