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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

  • ἐμφὺσ δὲ τῷ κρημνῷ, καὶ ταῖσ δεχομέναισ τὴν ἐπίβασιν καὶ παρεχούσαισ ἀντίληψιν ἐγκλίσεσι καὶ περιαγωγαῖσ καὶ τραχύτησι τῆσ πέτρασ παραδοὺσ ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἐπερεισάμενοσ ἐξίκετο πρὸσ τὸ ἄνω πέτρασ καὶ ἀναληφθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν προφυλάκων ἐδήλωσε τοῖσ ἔσω τὰ δεδογμένα· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 12 3:2)
  • προφυλάκων ἐδήλωσε τοῖσ ἔσω τὰ δεδογμένα καὶ· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 12 11:1)

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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