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μονόφρουρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μονόφρουρος μονόφρουρον

Structure: μονοφρουρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: froura

Sense

  1. watching alone, sole guardian

Examples

  • πέλοιτο δ’ οὖν τἀπὶ τούτοισιν εὖ πρᾶξισ, ὡσ θέλει τόδ’ ἄγχιστον Ἀ‐ πίασ γαίασ μονόφρουρον ἑρ́κοσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 6 1:8)

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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