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κωμάρχης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωμάρχης κωμάρχου

Structure: κωμαρχ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kw/mh, a)/rxw

Sense

  1. the head man of a village

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

  • καὶ καταστήσει ὁ βασιλεὺσ κωμάρχασ ἐν πάσαισ ταῖσ χώραισ τῆσ βασιλείασ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπιλεξάτωσαν κοράσια παρθενικὰ καλὰ τῷ εἴδει εἰσ Σοῦσαν τὴν πόλιν εἰσ τὸν γυναικῶνα. καὶ παραδοθήτωσαν τῷ εὐνούχῳ τοῦ βασιλέωσ τῷ φύλακι τῶν γυναικῶν, καὶ δοθήτω σμῆγμα καὶ ἡ λοιπὴ ἐπιμέλεια. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 2:3)
  • ἑτέραν οἴκησιν μήτ’ ἄλλοθι που συντελεῖν, τάσ τε καταγραφὰσ τῶν στρατιωτῶν καὶ τὰσ εἰσπράξεισ τῶν χρημάτων τὰσ γινομένασ εἰσ τὰ στρατιωτικὰ καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ χρείασ, ἃσ ἕκαστον ἔδει τῷ κοινῷ παρέχειν, οὐκέτι κατὰ τὰσ τρεῖσ φυλὰσ τὰσ γενικὰσ ὡσ πρότερον, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰσ τέτταρασ τὰσ τοπικὰσ τὰσ ὑφ’ ἑαυτοῦ διαταχθείσασ ἐποιεῖτο, ἡγεμόνασ ἐφ’ ἑκάστησ ἀποδείξασ συμμορίασ, ὥσπερ φυλάρχουσ ἢ κωμάρχασ, οἷσ προσέταξεν εἰδέναι, ποίαν οἰκίαν ἕκαστοσ οἰκεῖ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 14 3:1)

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

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