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οἰκοφύλαξ?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: oikophylax

Principal Part: οἰκοφύλαξ οἰκοφύλακος

Structure: οἰκοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a house-guard

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰκοφύλαξ οἰκοφύλακε οἰκοφύλακες
Genitive οἰκοφύλακος οἰκοφυλάκοιν οἰκοφυλάκων
Dative οἰκοφύλακι οἰκοφυλάκοιν οἰκοφύλαξι(ν)
Accusative οἰκοφύλακα οἰκοφύλακε οἰκοφύλακας
Vocative οἰκοφύλαξ οἰκοφύλακε οἰκοφύλακες

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

  • ὦ πόλις, ὦ γῆ, καὶ λευκὸν ὕδωρ, ὕπατοί τε θεοί, καὶ βαρύτιμοι χθόνιοι θήκας κατέχοντες, καὶ Ζεὺς σωτὴρ τρίτος, οἰκοφύλαξ ὁσίων ἀνδρῶν, δέξασθ ἱκέτην τὸν θηλυγενῆ στόλον αἰδοίῳ πνεύματι χώρας: (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, lyric 1:5)
  • σαίνοι κέν σ1 ἐσιδοῖσα καὶ οἰκοφύλαξ σκυλάκαινα, δέσποιναν μελάθρων οἰομένα ποθορῆν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6043)

Synonyms

  1. a house-guard

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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