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χρησμῳδός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρησμῳδός χρησμῳδόν

Structure: χρησμῳδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: w)|dh/

Sense

  1. chanting oracles, delivering them in verse;, prophesying, prophetic
  2. a soothsayer, oracle-monger

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative χρησμῳδός χρήσμῳδον
Genitive χρησμῳδοῦ χρησμῴδου
Dative χρησμῳδῷ χρησμῴδῳ
Accusative χρησμῳδόν χρήσμῳδον
Vocative χρησμῳδέ χρήσμῳδον
DualN/A/V χρησμῳδώ χρησμῴδω
G/D χρησμῳδοῖν χρησμῴδοιν
PluralNominative χρησμῳδοί χρήσμῳδα
Genitive χρησμῳδῶν χρησμῴδων
Dative χρησμῳδοῖς χρησμῴδοις
Accusative χρησμῳδούς χρήσμῳδα
Vocative χρησμῳδοί χρήσμῳδα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective χρησμῳδός χρησμῳδοῦ χρησμῳδότερος χρησμῳδοτεροῦ χρησμῳδότατος χρησμῳδοτατοῦ
Adverb χρησμῴδως χρησμῳδότερον χρησμῳδότατα

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

  • ἔγνων οὖν αὖ καὶ περὶ τῶν ποιητῶν ἐν ὀλίγῳ τοῦτο, ὅτι οὐ σοφίᾳ ποιοῖεν ἃ ποιοῖεν, ἀλλὰ φύσει τινὶ καὶ ἐνθουσιάζοντεσ ὥσπερ οἱ θεομάντεισ καὶ οἱ χρησμῳδοί· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 41:5)
  • τίνα γὰρ ἄλλην, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, πλήν γε χρησμῳδοί; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 22:9)
  • ᾗ οἱ πολιτικοὶ ἄνδρεσ χρώμενοι τὰσ πόλεισ ὀρθοῦσιν, οὐδὲν διαφερόντωσ ἔχοντεσ πρὸσ τὸ φρονεῖν ἢ οἱ χρησμῳδοί τε καὶ οἱ θεομάντεισ· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 179:1)

Synonyms

  1. a soothsayer

Related

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

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