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ψάλτρια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψάλτρια

Structure: ψαλτρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ya/llw

Sense

  1. a female harper

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

  • ἡ γὰρ μάγαδισ ὄργανόν ἐστι ψαλτικόν, ὡσ Ἀνακρέων φησί, Λυδῶν τε εὑρ́ημα, διὸ καὶ τὰσ Λυδὰσ ψαλτρίασ φησὶν εἶναι ὁ Ιὤν ἐν τῇ Ὀμφάλῃ διὰ τούτων ἀλλ’ εἰᾶ, Λυδαὶ ψάλτριαι, παλαιθέτων ὕμνων ἀοιδοί, τὸν ξένον κοιμήσατε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 36 1:2)
  • τὸ δὲ τῶν θεραπόντων πλῆθοσ εἵπετο τοῖσ ἀναβαίνουσιν εἰσ Ιἑροσόλυμα ἑπτακισχιλίων τριακοσίων τριακονταεπτά, ψάλται δὲ καὶ ψάλτριαι διακόσιοι τεσσαρακονταπέντε, κάμηλοι τετρακόσιαι τριακονταπέντε, ὑποζύγια πεντακισχίλια πεντακόσια εἰκοσιπέντε. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 90:1)

Synonyms

  1. a female harper

Related

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

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