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φύλαξις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φύλαξις φυλάξεως

Structure: φυλαξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fula/ssw

Sense

  1. an act of watching, guarding
  2. a security

Declension

Third 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

  • Ἕκτωρ γὰρ ἡμῖν τοῖσ φύλαξι μέμψεται. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 16)
  • ἑκὰσ δὲ φρυκτοῦ φῶσ ἐπ’ Εὐρίπου ῥοὰσ Μεσσαπίου φύλαξι σημαίνει μολόν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:6)
  • ὅπερ γάρ φασί τινεσ δεῖν ὑπάρχειν τοῖσ φύλαξι, τὸ φιλητικοὺσ μὲν εἶναι τῶν γνωρίμων πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ ἀγνῶτασ ἀγρίουσ, ὁ θυμόσ ἐστιν ὁ ποιῶν τὸ φιλητικόν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 110:2)
  • καὶ διανύσαντεσ σπουδῇ καὶ μετὰ προθυμίασ τὴν ὁδὸν ἐπιφαίνονται τοῖσ φύλαξι τῶν βοσκημάτων συντεταγμένοι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 20 4:2)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ἐνυκτέρευον φυλαττόμενοι ἱκανοῖσ φύλαξι. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 33:4)

Synonyms

  1. an act of watching

  2. a security

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