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προφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφύλαξ προφύλακος

Structure: προφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = ai( profulakai/, Thuc., Xen.

Sense

  1. an advanced guard

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προφύλαξ προφύλακε προφύλακες
Genitive προφύλακος προφυλάκοιν προφυλάκων
Dative προφύλακι προφυλάκοιν προφύλαξιν*
Accusative προφύλακα προφύλακε προφύλακας
Vocative προφύλαξ προφύλακε προφύλακες

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

  • σὺ δ’ ἐλθὲ μεθ’ ὅσων βούλει, καὶ τοῖσ προφύλαξιν εἰπὲ δέχεσθαι τὸν νυκτὸσ ἀφικνούμενον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 4:8)
  • καί τινεσ ἱππεῖσ τοῦ Μιθριδάτου χωρίσ τε τῶν ἵππων καὶ χωρὶσ ἐπαγγέλματοσ ἐβοήθουν τοῖσ σφετέροισ προφύλαξιν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. an advanced 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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