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προηγητής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προηγητής προηγητοῦ

Structure: προηγητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: from prohge/omai

Sense

  1. one who goes before to shew the way, a guide

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative προηγητής προηγητᾱ́ προηγηταί
Genitive προηγητοῦ προηγηταῖν προηγητῶν
Dative προηγητῇ προηγηταῖν προηγηταῖς
Accusative προηγητήν προηγητᾱ́ προηγητᾱ́ς
Vocative προηγητά προηγητᾱ́ προηγηταί

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

  • ἀνάγ[κη γάρ], ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικ[ασταί,] πρῶτον μὲν ὀρεωκόμον καὶ προηγητὴν ἀκολουθε[ῖν] τῷ ζεύγει, ὃ ἦγεν τὴν γυναῖκα, ἔπειτα δὲ παῖδασ τοὺσ προπέμποντασ αὐτὴν ἀκολουθεῖν καὶ Διώξιππον· (Hyperides, Speeches, 12:1)
  • τοῖσ τυφλοῖσι γὰρ αὕτη κέλευθοσ ἐκ προηγητοῦ πέλει. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode2)
  • ῥώμησ γε μέντοι καὶ προηγητοῦ τινοσ δεῖται· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:3)
  • ὁ δὲ θαυμαστὸσ ἀνθρώπων τύραννοσ Ἔρωσ ἐκ Διονύσου πηγῶν ἀρυσάμενοσ γῆν ἅπασαν ἐπέρχεται προηγητῇ Διονύσῳ χρώμενοσ, οὐδ’ αὐτῷ θᾶκοι τούτου χωρὶσ οὐδ’ ἔργα οὐδ’ εὐναί. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:15)
  • οἶμαι δὲ οὐδὲ καταβήσεσθαι πολλῶν ἐτῶν κεφαλὴν ἀξιόχρεω πρὸσ τοῦτον ἀγωνίσασθαι, ἀλλ’ εἶναι διηνεκῆ τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ ὡσ ἀρίστου κήρυκοσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων καὶ προηγητοῦ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:6)

Synonyms

  1. one who goes before to shew the way

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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