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ψαλμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψαλμός ψαλμοῦ

Structure: ψαλμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a twitching or twanging
  2. the sound of the harp
  3. a song sung to the harp, a psalm

Declension

Second 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

  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ περὶ ψαλμοὺσ καὶ φόρμιγγασ ἁρμονία δι’ ἀντιφώνων ἔχει τὸ σύμφωνον, ὀξύτησι καὶ βαρύτησιν ἁμωσγέπωσ ὁμοιότητοσ ἐγγιγνομένησ· (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 8 3:1)
  • τοῖσ μέντοι Σελευκεῦσιν ἐδόκει σοφὸσ ἀνὴρ Αἴσωποσ εἶναι, τὸν Σουρήναν ὁρῶσι τὴν τῶν Μιλησιακῶν ἀκολαστημάτων πήραν ἐξηρτημένον πρόσθεν, ὄπισθεν δὲ Παρθικὴν Σύβαριν ἐφελκόμενον ἐν τοσαύταισ παλλακίδων ἁμάξαισ, τρόπον τινὰ ταῖσ λεγομέναισ ἐχίδναισ καὶ σκυτάλαισ ἀντιμόρφωσ τὰ μὲν ἐμφανῆ καὶ πρόσθια μέρη φοβερὰ καὶ θηρικώδη δόρασι καὶ τόξοισ καὶ ἵπποισ προβαλλομένην, κατ’ οὐρὰν δὲ τῆσ φάλαγγοσ εἰσ χορείασ καὶ κρόταλα καὶ ψαλμοὺσ καὶ παννυχίδασ ἀκολάστουσ μετὰ γυναικῶν τελευτῶσαν. (Plutarch, chapter 32 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the sound of the harp

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

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