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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

  • "καὶ μὰ Δία οὐδὲν ἀπεικὸσ ἐν πολλοῖσ τοῖσ ἀνοήτοισ εὑρεθήσεσθαί τινασ τοὺσ καὶ τεταρταίων ἀπηλλάχθαι δι’ αὐτοῦ φήσοντασ καὶ νύκτωρ ἐντετυχηκέναι τῷ δαίμονι τῷ νυκτοφύλακι. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:86)

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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