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φυλακή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυλακή

Structure: φυλακ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fula/ssw

Sense

  1. a watching or guarding, watch, guard, ward, to watch, watch, watches
  2. a watch or guard, guard, a guard or garrison
  3. a watch, station, post
  4. a watch
  5. a place for keeping, a ward, prison
  6. a watching, guarding, keeping, preserving, guarded or occupied, to preserve, to keep guard, be on the watch, on, guard
  7. guardianship
  8. a safe-guard
  9. precaution

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φυλακή φυλακᾱ́ φυλακαί
Genitive φυλακῆς φυλακαῖν φυλακῶν
Dative φυλακῇ φυλακαῖν φυλακαῖς
Accusative φυλακήν φυλακᾱ́ φυλακᾱ́ς
Vocative φυλακή φυλακᾱ́ φυλακαί

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

  • φυλακαὶ γὰρ ἡμῶν κρείσσονεσ κατ’ ἐξόδουσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode 3:13)
  • ἔτι δ’ ἡσυχία τῇδε κατ’ Αὖλιν καὶ ἀκίνητοι φυλακαὶ τειχέων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests12)
  • καὶ νῦν ἅπαντ’ ἐκεῖνα πεπύλωται πύλαισ καὶ βεβαλάνωται καὶ φυλάττεται κύκλῳ, ἐφοδεύεται, κωδωνοφορεῖται, πανταχῇ, φυλακαὶ καθεστήκασι καὶ φρυκτωρίαι ἐν τοῖσι πύργοισ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:8)
  • ἐν οἷσ Λεωκράτησ οὑτοσὶ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀποδρὰσ ᾤχετο, καὶ τὰ χρήματα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἐξεκόμισε, καὶ <τὰ> ἱερὰ τὰ πατρῷα μετεπέμψατο, καὶ εἰσ τοσοῦτον προδοσίασ ἦλθεν ὥστε κατὰ τὴν τούτου προαίρεσιν ἔρημοι μὲν ἦσαν οἱ νεῴ, ἔρημοι δ’ αἱ φυλακαὶ τῶν τειχῶν, ἐξελέλειπτο δ’ ἡ πόλισ καὶ ἡ χώρα. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 54:1)
  • οὗτοσ ἤρα Πομπηϊάσ τῆσ Καίσαροσ γυναικόσ οὐδὲ αὐτῆσ ἀκούσησ, ἀλλὰ φυλακαί τε τῆσ γυναικωνίτιδοσ ἀκριβεῖσ ἦσαν, ἥ τε μήτηρ τοῦ Καίσαροσ Αὐρηλία, γυνὴ σώφρων, περιέπουσα τὴν νύμφην ἀεὶ χαλεπὴν καὶ παρακεκινδυνευμένην αὐτοῖσ ἐποίει τὴν ἔντευξιν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 9 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a watching or guarding

  2. a watch or guard

  3. a watch

  4. a watch

  5. a watching

  6. a safe-guard

  7. precaution

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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