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εἰρηνοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰρηνοφύλαξ εἰρηνοφύλακος

Structure: εἰρηνοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a guardian of peace

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εἰρηνοφύλαξ εἰρηνοφύλακε εἰρηνοφύλακες
Genitive εἰρηνοφύλακος εἰρηνοφυλάκοιν εἰρηνοφυλάκων
Dative εἰρηνοφύλακι εἰρηνοφυλάκοιν εἰρηνοφύλαξιν*
Accusative εἰρηνοφύλακα εἰρηνοφύλακε εἰρηνοφύλακας
Vocative εἰρηνοφύλαξ εἰρηνοφύλακε εἰρηνοφύλακες

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

  • εἰ δὲ σαφὲσ δοκεῖ εἶναι ὡσ, εἰ μέλλουσι πᾶσαι αἱ πρόσοδοι ἔκπλεῳ προσιέναι, ὅτι εἰρήνην δεῖ ὑπάρχειν, ἆρ’ οὐκ ἄξιον καὶ εἰρηνοφύλακασ καθιστάναι; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a guardian of peace

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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