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διακωλυτής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διακωλυτής διακωλυτοῦ

Structure: διακωλυτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from diakwlu/w

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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