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δορυφορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δορυφορία

Structure: δορυφορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from dorufo/ros

Sense

  1. guard kept over

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

  • τὸν ἄρτι μετὰ πολλῆσ παραδρομῆσ καὶ πάσησ δορυφορίασ εἰσ τὸ προειρημένον εἰσελθόντα γαζοφυλάκιον ἔφερον ἀβοήθητον ἑαυτῷ καθεστῶτα, φανερῶσ τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ δυναστείαν ἐπεγνωκότεσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 3:28)
  • ἄλλωσ τε οὐδὲ ὄνειδοσ αὐτῷ ἐστιν, ὡσ σὺ φήσ, τὸ παρασιτεῖν ἐκείνῳ, δῆλον ὅτι ὥσ τινι κρείττονι χείρονα, ὅπου γε μὴν τῷ πλουσίῳ τοῦτο λυσιτελέσ ἐστιν, τὸ τρέφειν τὸν παράσιτον, ᾧ γε μετὰ τοῦ κοσμεῖσθαι ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀσφάλεια πολλὴ ἐκ τῆσ τούτου δορυφορίασ ὑπάρχει· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 58:6)

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

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