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ὁδοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁδοφύλαξ ὁδοφύλακος

Structure: ὁδοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a watcher of the roads

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁδοφύλαξ ὁδοφύλακε ὁδοφύλακες
Genitive ὁδοφύλακος ὁδοφυλάκοιν ὁδοφυλάκων
Dative ὁδοφύλακι ὁδοφυλάκοιν ὁδοφύλαξιν*
Accusative ὁδοφύλακα ὁδοφύλακε ὁδοφύλακας
Vocative ὁδοφύλαξ ὁδοφύλακε ὁδοφύλακες

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

  • δελτίον δίπτυχον λαβὼν τὸν κηρὸν αὐτοῦ ἐξέκνησε, καὶ ἔπειτα ἐν τῷ ξύλῳ τοῦ δελτίου ἔγραψε τὴν βασιλέοσ γνώμην, ποιήσασ δὲ ταῦτα ὀπίσω ἐπέτηξε τὸν κηρὸν ἐπὶ τὰ γράμματα, ἵνα φερόμενον κεινὸν τὸ δελτίον μηδὲν πρῆγμα παρέχοι πρὸσ τῶν ὁδοφυλάκων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 239 4:4)

Synonyms

  1. a watcher of the roads

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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