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ὀπισθοφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀπισθοφύλαξ ὀπισθοφύλακος

Structure: ὀπισθοφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. one who guards the rear, the rear-guard

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀπισθοφύλαξ ὀπισθοφύλακε ὀπισθοφύλακες
Genitive ὀπισθοφύλακος ὀπισθοφυλάκοιν ὀπισθοφυλάκων
Dative ὀπισθοφύλακι ὀπισθοφυλάκοιν ὀπισθοφύλαξιν*
Accusative ὀπισθοφύλακα ὀπισθοφύλακε ὀπισθοφύλακας
Vocative ὀπισθοφύλαξ ὀπισθοφύλακε ὀπισθοφύλακες

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

  • ἔνθα δὴ Χειρίσοφοσ μὲν ἡγεῖτο τοῦ στρατεύματοσ λαβὼν τὸ ἀμφ’ αὑτὸν καὶ τοὺσ γυμνῆτασ πάντασ, Ξενοφῶν δὲ σὺν τοῖσ ὀπισθοφύλαξιν ὁπλίταισ εἵπετο οὐδένα ἔχων γυμνῆτα· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 1 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. one who guards the rear

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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