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ἀρωγός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρωγός

Structure: ἀρωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)rh/gw

Sense

  1. aiding, succouring, propitious, serviceable
  2. serviceable towards
  3. a helper, aid, a defender, advocate

Examples

  • ἀρωγὰσ δ’ ἐκ τάφου πέμψει πατήρ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode26)
  • καὶ τὸν ἀγρευτὰν Ἀπόλλω καὶ κασιγνήταν πυκνοστίκτων ὀπαδὸν ὠκυπόδων ἐλάφων στέργω διπλᾶσ ἀρωγὰσ μολεῖν γᾷ τᾷδε καὶ πολίταισ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. serviceable towards

Related

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

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