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ἀγροφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγροφύλαξ

Structure: ἀγροφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a watcher of the country

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀγροφύλαξ ἀγροφύλακε ἀγροφύλακες
Genitive ἀγροφύλακος ἀγροφυλάκοιν ἀγροφυλάκων
Dative ἀγροφύλακι ἀγροφυλάκοιν ἀγροφύλαξιν*
Accusative ἀγροφύλακα ἀγροφύλακε ἀγροφύλακας
Vocative ἀγροφύλαξ ἀγροφύλακε ἀγροφύλακες

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

  • Ἀγροφύλαξ ἕστηκα πολυκτεάνοισ ἐν ἀρούραισ, Φρίκωνοσ καλύβην καὶ φυτὰ ῥυόμενοσ, τοῦτο λέγων πρὸσ ἕκαστον· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2431)

Synonyms

  1. a watcher of the country

Similar forms

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

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