Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Ἀγυιεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀγυιεύς

Structure: Ἀγυιευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)guia/

Sense

  1. guardian of the streets
  2. a pillar set up at

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἀγυιεύς Ἀγυιή Ἀγυιής
Genitive Ἀγυιέως Ἀγυιέοιν Ἀγυιέων
Dative Ἀγυιεί Ἀγυιέοιν Ἀγυιεῦσιν*
Accusative Ἀγυιέα Ἀγυιή Ἀγυιέᾱς
Vocative Ἀγυιεύ Ἀγυιή Ἀγυιής

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

  • ὦ δέσποτ’ ἄναξ γεῖτον ἀγυιεῦ προθύρου προπύλαιε, δέξαι τελετὴν καινὴν ὦναξ, ἣν τῷ πατρὶ καινοτομοῦμεν, παῦσόν τ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦτο τὸ λίαν στρυφνὸν καὶ πρίνινον ἦθοσ, ἀντὶ σιραίου μέλιτοσ μικρὸν τῷ θυμιδίῳ παραμείξασ· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Lyric-Scene, anapests1)
  • καὶ σύ, Φοῖβ’ ἄναξ Ἀγυιεῦ, καὶ μέλαθρα, χαίρετε, ἥλικέσ θ’ οὑμοί, θεῶν τε δεξίμηλ’ ἀγάλματα. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, trochees 1:30)

Synonyms

  1. guardian of the streets

  2. a pillar set up at

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION