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νυκτοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτοφύλαξ νυκτοφύλακος

Structure: νυκτοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a night-watcher, warder

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νυκτοφύλαξ νυκτοφύλακε νυκτοφύλακες
Genitive νυκτοφύλακος νυκτοφυλάκοιν νυκτοφυλάκων
Dative νυκτοφύλακι νυκτοφυλάκοιν νυκτοφύλαξιν*
Accusative νυκτοφύλακα νυκτοφύλακε νυκτοφύλακας
Vocative νυκτοφύλαξ νυκτοφύλακε νυκτοφύλακες

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

  • ὡσ δ’ ἦν ἥλιοσ ἐπὶ δυσμαῖσ, ἀνέστησαν οἱ Ἕλληνεσ καὶ εἶπον ὅτι ὡρ́α νυκτοφύλακασ καθιστάναι καὶ σύνθημα παραδιδόναι. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 41:1)

Synonyms

  1. a night-watcher

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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