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διακωλυτής?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: diakōlytēs

Principal Part: διακωλυτής διακωλυτοῦ

Structure: διακωλυτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from διακωλύω

Sense

  1. a hinderer

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

  • γέρεά τε δὴ τάδε τοῖσι βασιλεῦσι Σπαρτιῆται δεδώκασι, ἱρωσύνας δύο, Διός τε Λακεδαίμονος καὶ Διὸς οὐρανίου, καὶ πόλεμον ἐκφέρειν ἐπ ἣν ἂν βούλωνται χώρην, τούτου δὲ μηδένα εἶναι Σπαρτιητέων διακωλυτήν, εἰ δὲ μὴ αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ἄγεϊ ἐνέχεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 56 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hinderer

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

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