ὀρχήστρα

See also: ορχήστρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”) +‎ -τρᾰ (-tră, “a suffix used to form instrument nouns (pl.)”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /or.kʰɛ̌ːs.traː/ → /orˈçis.tra/ → /orˈçis.tra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /or.kʰɛ̌ːs.traː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /orˈkʰe̝s.tra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /orˈçis.tra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /orˈçis.tra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /orˈçis.tra/

Noun

ὀρχήστρᾱ • (orkhḗstrā) f (genitive ὀρχήστρᾱς); first declension

1. space on which the chorus danced, orchestra

Declension

First declension of ἡ ὀρχήστρᾱ; τῆς ὀρχήστρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ὀρχήστρᾱ hē orkhḗstrā	τὼ ὀρχήστρᾱ tṑ orkhḗstrā	αἱ ὀρχῆστραι hai orkhêstrai
Genitive	τῆς ὀρχήστρᾱς tês orkhḗstrās	τοῖν ὀρχήστραιν toîn orkhḗstrain	τῶν ὀρχηστρῶν tôn orkhēstrôn
Dative	τῇ ὀρχήστρᾳ tēî orkhḗstrāi	τοῖν ὀρχήστραιν toîn orkhḗstrain	ταῖς ὀρχήστραις taîs orkhḗstrais
Accusative	τὴν ὀρχήστρᾱν tḕn orkhḗstrān	τὼ ὀρχήστρᾱ tṑ orkhḗstrā	τᾱ̀ς ὀρχήστρᾱς tā̀s orkhḗstrās
Vocative	ὀρχήστρᾱ orkhḗstrā	ὀρχήστρᾱ orkhḗstrā	ὀρχῆστραι orkhêstrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀρχηστρικός (orkhēstrikós)

Descendants

• Greek: ορχήστρα (orchístra)
• → Latin: orchēstra (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “ὀρχήστρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὀρχήστρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀρχήστρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ὀρχήστρα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011