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προστατήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προστατήριος προστατήριᾱ προστατήριον

Structure: προστατηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from prostate/w

Sense

  1. standing before, hovering before, domineering
  2. standing before, protecting

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • τίπτε μοι τόδ’ ἐμπέδωσ δεῖμα προστατήριον καρδίασ τερασκόπου ποτᾶται, μαντιπολεῖ δ’ ἀκέλευστοσ ἄμισθοσ ἀοιδά, οὐδ’ ἀποπτύσαι δίκαν δυσκρίτων ὀνειράτων θάρσοσ εὐπειθὲσ ἵ‐ ζει φρενὸσ φίλον θρόνον; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 11)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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